Meta rolls out new language model amid Big Tech’s AI push

Meta Platforms Inc is releasing a new large language model based on artificial intelligence (AI) aimed at the research community, chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on Friday, becoming the latest company to join the AI race.

The battle to dominate the AI technology space, which until recently existed more in the background, kicked off late last year with the launch of Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT prompted tech heavyweights from Alphabet Inc to China’s Baidu Inc to create their own offerings.