IBM to host Meta’s Llama 2-chat 70B parameter model in the watsonx.ai studio

As part of the continued roll-out of our enterprise-ready AI and data platform, watsonx, IBM (IBM) plans to host Meta‘s (META) Llama 2-chat 70 billion parameter model in the watsonx.ai studio, with early access now available to select clients and partners. This will build on IBM’s collaboration with Meta on open innovation for AI, including work with open source projects developed by Meta – such as the PyTorch machine learning framework and the Presto query engine used in watsonx.data. This will also support IBM’s strategy of offering both third-party and its own AI models. Currently in watsonx.ai, AI builders can leverage models from IBM and the Hugging Face community, which are pre-trained to support a range of Natural Language Processing, or NLP, tasks including question answering, content generation and summarization, text classification and extraction.