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Meta Releases AI Coding Assistant Code Llama

  • Meta has released Code Llama, an AI model tuned for programming tasks that can generate, complete, and debug code.
  • Code Llama supports popular languages like Python, Java, C++ and comes in different sizes trained on billions of tokens.
  • Code Llama competes with AI coding tools from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google and aims to aid software developers.
  • While promising productivity gains, Code Llama poses risks around accuracy, bias, and intellectual property.
  • Experts say Meta's claims of openness for Code Llama have caveats, with true open source AI facing challenges.
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