Cloudflare announces Llama 2 partnership with Meta

Cloudflare (NET) announced a partnership with Meta (META) to make the Llama 2 open source large language model, or LLM, available to developers building AI applications on Cloudflare’s developer platform, Workers. Until recently, the only way to have access to an LLM was through calls to proprietary models. Training LLMs is a serious investment – in time, computing, and financial resources – and thus not something that’s accessible to most developers. Meta’s release of Llama 2, a publicly available LLM, has presented a major shift, allowing developers to run and deploy their own LLMs. However, this still requires access to, and managing, the infrastructure to run the LLM. Now, more than a million developers already building on Cloudflare have access to a leading LLM to enrich their applications. Cloudflare’s hyper-distributed edge network will enable developers anywhere to build applications with Llama 2. And with Cloudflare’s Data Localization Suite, they will be able to do this while controlling where their data is handled. Cloudflare’s privacy-first approach to application development can help companies earn trust with their customers by ensuring data used for inference is not used for training or improving the LLM.