Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) is expanding its foray into artificial intelligence (AI) with the release of Code Llama, an AI model designed to assist in writing computer code. The new model, built on Meta’s Llama 2 language model, can generate code based on human text prompts, offer code completion suggestions, and aid in debugging.
Code Llama supports popular coding languages like Python, Java, and C++. Meta’s move into the generative AI market follows the success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and aims to compete with Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot. The company has been actively releasing various AI models, including its open-source language model Llama. Code Llama will be available in different configurations and is intended for coding tasks rather than general text tasks.