ChatGPT
OpenAIThe best-known general-purpose AI assistant: writing, analysis, code, images and web search in a single interface.
TextCodeImagesWeb search
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Llama
Meta's open-weight family that started the movement: free to download, fine-tune and deploy on your own hardware.
Pricing
Free
Platforms
Self-hosted, API, Web
Publisher
Origin
United States · 2023
Overview
Llama is the model family that made open-weight AI mainstream. Released by Meta under a community license, the models are free to download, fine-tune and deploy — which spawned an entire industry of local assistants, enterprise deployments and research. Meta AI, built on Llama, is woven into WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. For organizations that need full control over their AI stack, Llama remains the historic reference.
Editorial review
Strengths
- Free weights, huge deployment ecosystem
- Runs locally: total data control
- Battle-tested by years of community use
Weaknesses
- Community license with some restrictions (not OSI open source)
- Latest versions trail the frontier
Pricing
Weights
€0
- · Download from llama.com
- · Community license
Meta AI
€0
- · Assistant in WhatsApp, Instagram…
Cloud hosts
usage-based
- · Hosted by every major cloud
Prompt examples
You run entirely on my machine and nothing leaves it. Summarize the confidential contract below and list any clause that deviates from standard practice [paste].
I have 5,000 support tickets with resolutions. Draft a plan to fine-tune a Llama model into a support assistant: data preparation, training setup, evaluation and deployment.
News
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