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Meta's Code Llama: elevate your coding game with a free and powerful language model for seamless

Meta's Code Llama: Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has recently released Code Llama, a large language model (LLM) that can generate and debug code from natural language prompts. Code Llama is based on code Llama 2, a 175 billion-parameter LLM that outperforms other open-source LLMs on various benchmarks. Code Llama is available for free for research and commercial use and can be downloaded from Meta's AI website.

Code Llama is a code-specialized version of Meta's code Llama 2 that was further trained on 500 billion tokens of code and code-related data from Llama 2's code-specific datasets. Code Llama can generate code as well as natural language about code in response to code and natural language questions. It is also useful for code completion and debugging.  It supports many popular programming languages, such as Python, C++, Java, PHP, TypeScript, C#, and Bash.

Code Llama is available in three models: Code Llama, the foundational code model; Code Llama - Python, specialized for Python; and Code Llama - Instruct, fine-tuned for understanding natural language instructions. Each of these models has three sizes: 7B, 13B, and 34B parameters. The 7B and 13B models also have fill-in-the-middle (FIM) capability, allowing them to insert code into existing code.

According to Meta, Code Llama has the potential to make workflows faster and more efficient for current developers and lower the barrier to entry for people who are learning to code. Code Llama can be used as a productivity and educational tool to assist programmers in developing more robust, well-documented software. Code Llama can also help with code exploration and experimentation, as well as code refactoring and optimization.

In its own benchmark testing, Code Llama outperformed state-of-the-art publicly available LLMs on code tasks, such as CodeBLEU, CodeXGLUE, and CodeSearchNet.Code Llama also achieved impressive results on natural language tasks, such as SuperGLUE, LAMA, and PIQA. Meta claims that Code Llama is the most advanced LLM for code generation and understanding, surpassing even GPT-4, the latest LLM from OpenAI.

Meta's release of Code Llama is part of its vision to democratize AI and foster innovation and collaboration in the AI community. Meta believes that an open approach to AI is the best one for developing new AI tools that are safe, responsible, and beneficial for humanity. Meta also hopes that Code Llama will inspire more research and development on LLMs for code and other domains. 

Meta has also released the Code Llama research paper, which provides more details on the model architecture, training data, evaluation metrics, and results. Meta has also provided the Code Llama GitHub repository, which contains the starting code and instructions for using the model. Meta encourages users to share their feedback and suggestions on Code Llama, as well as their creative and innovative applications of the model.

Code Llama is a remarkable achievement in the field of AI and coding and a valuable resource for developers and learners alike. Code Llama demonstrates the power and potential of LLMs to generate and understand code, as well as to bridge the gap between natural language and programming language. Code Llama is a testament to Meta's commitment to advancing AI and empowering its users.