IBM's move to host Llama 2 aligns with its strategy to offer both third-party and its own AI models, and to continue its collaboration with Meta on open AI innovation. IBM also emphasizes its commitment to trust and security principles, offering an AI guardrails function to remove harmful language from the input and output of the Llama 2 model. The company also highlights its large team of data, AI, and automation consultants who will work with clients to tune and operationalize models for specific use cases.
Key takeaways:
- IBM plans to host Meta’s open source large language model (LLM) Llama 2-chat on its AI and data platform, watsonx.
- Llama 2 will be hosted in the studio, watsonx.ai, which currently offers models from IBM and the Hugging Face community.
- IBM is committed to keeping trust and security principles at the forefront, with features such as the AI guardrails function to help automatically remove harmful language from the input prompt text.
- IBM boasts of its 21,000 data, AI and automation consultants, in addition to its Centre of Excellence for Generative AI that comprises more than 1,000 consultants with specialized generative AI expertise.