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.