The shift in policy, covering government agencies and contractors working on national security, is intended to promote “responsible and ethical” innovations, the company said.

The Facebook-parent company is making its large language models, called Llama, available to more than a dozen US agencies and contractors.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta will allow U.S. government agencies and contractors working on national security to use its artificial intelligence models for military purposes, the company said on Monday, in a shift from its policy that prohibited the use of its te...

Meta also making Llama available to similar agencies in UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand

(Bloomberg) — Meta Platforms Inc. has granted approval for US government agencies and defense contractors to use its AI models, opening the door for Meta’s technology to play a key role in military and national security efforts.