Meta unveils AI tool Code Llama with enhanced coding capabilities

Meta is back with yet another AI model to help developers. Code Llama is an AI model that is built on top of Meta’s Llama 2.

The latest tool is meant to generate and discuss code and is free for research and commercial use.

The state-of-the-art language model can generate codes based on text prompts. It has the potential to enhance workflows for developers and even make coding accessible for beginners.

AI code generators are one of the most popular use cases of generative AI because they have the potential to significantly reduce the workload of coders, especially on mundane tasks.

What makes Meta’s Code Llama stand out from Google and OpenAI is that Meta has released its model for free under a community license, giving access to the model for both research and commercial use (with certain restrictions for large commercial use).

While there are other such open-source LLMs for code generation, Meta claims that Code Llama performs better than these models in evaluation tests.

As with other use cases of generative AI, code generation has also found itself in copyright controversy.

For instance, GitHub launched Copilot, an AI coding tool powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4, but GitHub and OpenAI are being sued because CoPilot allegedly reproduces copyrighted code.