On Tuesday, during its annual Inspire event, tech giant Microsoft announced that it had inked a deal with Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to integrate the social media giant’s AI model, LLama 2, into the Microsoft Azure cloud-computing platform.
“Meta has been doing phenomenal work innovating in the open models, and Llama has captured the imagination of what open-source and AI foundation models can do,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during the Azure AI presentation. “We are very excited today is the announcement of Meta’s Llama 2 coming to Azure and Windows.”
LLama 2 will be made available to developers using Microsoft’s Azure platform at no additional cost. Also, Microsoft announced a $30 per person subscription model for businesses using its Copilot for Microsoft 365 suite. Copilot is an AI engine that aims to increase productivity and creativity using artificial intelligence.
Microsoft’s stock price rose 5% on Tuesday after the new projects and partnerships were announced and is currently trading at $362, according to data from MarketWatch.
Meanwhile, Meta’s stock price rose 0.38% today and currently trades at $311, according to Market
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