VentureBeat December 14, 2023
Microsoft, one of the biggest winners of the generative AI boom so far thanks to its early backing of OpenAI and integration of the latter startup’s tech into Bing, Azure, and various other services, has clearly been trying to avoid putting all of its AI eggs in one basket.
Today, the company announced that it is making Meta Platforms’ rival open-sourced AI model Llama 2 available in Azure AI Studio, its cloud platform AI clearinghouse, in the form of a “model-as-a-service.”
Understanding AI models-as-a-service
Similar to the now old acronym of SaaS (software-as-a-service), MaaS offers customers the ability to use AI models such as Llama 2 on-demand over the web when needed with minimal set up, without having to go...