Meta is allowing more governments to access its suite of Llama AI models. The group includes France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea and organizations associated with the European Union and NATO, the company said in an update.
The move comes after the company took similar steps last year to bring Llama to the US government and its contractors. Meta has also made its AI models available to the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand for “national security use cases.”
Meta notes that governments won’t just be using the company’s off-the-shelf models. They’ll also be able to incorporate their own data and create AI applications for specific use cases. “Governments can also fine-tune Llama models using their own sensitive national security data, host them in secure environments at various levels of classification, and deploy models tailored for specific purposes on-device in the field,” the company says.
Meta says the open source nature of Llama makes it ideally suited for government use as “it can be securely downloaded and deployed without the need to transfer sensitive data through third-party AI providers.” Recently, Mark Zuckerberg has suggested that “safety concerns” could potentially prevent Meta from open-sourcing its efforts around building “real superintelligence.”