Competitive race

Meta releases Llama 2 weights for commercial use

Meta released pretrained and chat-tuned Llama 2 models in 7B, 13B and 70B sizes for research and commercial use, with distribution through Azure, AWS and Hugging Face.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM67confidence 98/100

Why it moved the index

Commercially usable weights and immediate multi-cloud distribution sharply widened access to capable general models, increasing diffusion and competitive acceleration despite red teaming and use policies.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 67 · confidence 98

    New July 2023 open-weight commercial diffusion milestone.

    12 Aug 2026