Meta allowed US government agencies and contractors to use its open-source AI model Llama for “national security purposes.” Meta said in a statement that it is working with Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Oracle and other companies to make Llama available to the government.
According to Meta’s policies, people cannot use the latest Llama 3 model for “military, war, nuclear, or espionage industries or applications.” However, Meta says it opens the door to the US military using Llama to do things like “optimize logistics and complex planning, track terrorist financing or strengthen cyber defenses.”
Meta says Oracle has already used Llama to help aircraft technicians perform repairs. Lockheed Martin uses this model to generate code and analyze data. During the release of its third quarter financial report, Meta mentioned making its artificial intelligence model available to the government.
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Last week, a report from Reuters revealed that Chinese researchers have used the Llama 2 Meta model to build an artificial intelligence system for the country’s military. At the time, a Meta spokesperson told Reuters: “The alleged role of a single, outdated version of the American open source model is irrelevant when we know that China is investing more than $1 trillion in artificial intelligence to overtake the United States.”
