Introduction

The chapter discusses the release of Meta's new open source model called CodeLama 70B, which is designed for code development. It is described as an improved version of their previous model and is capable of writing code in various programming languages. CodeLama 70B is one of the largest open source AI models for code generation and is trained on a massive amount of code and code-related data. The chapter also mentions Meta's resources and their ability to gather such a large dataset.