Meta authorizes the use of its artificial intelligence by the American army

This Tuesday, November 5, Meta announced Llama available to US government agencies, including agencies dedicated to defense and national security. Meta justifies this announcement by indicating that the ethical use of its artificial intelligence should help support the prosperity of the United States, and help establish the open source model as the standard in the current race for artificial intelligence. According to Meta, language models like Llama can enable complex logistics and planning, as well as tracking terrorist financing and strengthening cyber defenses.

A Llama in the army

President of Global Affairs at Meta, Nick Clegg, quoted: “We believe it is in the interests of America and the broader democratic world for American open source models to excel and succeed over Chinese and foreign models.” he began. Then he became more precise: “As open source models become more capable and more widely adopted, a global open source standard for AI models is likely to emerge, as has been the case with technologies like Linux and Android. This will happen whether the United States engages or not. This standard will form the basis for AI development worldwide and will be integrated into technology, infrastructure and manufacturing, as well as global finance and e-commerce.“

Meta then emphasizes the importance of the open source model, indicating that it has helped the American government accelerate research in defense and high-end computing, but also identify vulnerabilities and improve communications between systems. The American company thus claims that China and other competitors have already started to develop their own open source model by investing large sums of money to get ahead of the United States.