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Scale AI unveils ‘Defense Llama’ large language model for national security users

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2024-11-05 19:30:02

Credentialed U.S. military and national security officials are experimenting and engaging in multiple classified environments with Defense Llama — a powerful new large language model that Scale AI configured and fine-tuned over the last year from Meta’s Llama 3 LLM — to adopt generative AI for their distinctive missions, like combat planning and intelligence operations.

Dan Tadross, Scale AI’s head of federal delivery and a Marine Corps reservist, briefed DefenseScoop on the making and envisioned impacts of this new custom-for-the-military model in an exclusive interview and technology demonstration on Monday.

“There are already some users from combatant commands and other military groups that are able to leverage this on certain networks,” he explained at Scale AI’s office in Washington.

Large language models and the overarching field of generative AI encompass emerging and already-disruptive technologies that can produce (convincing but not always accurate) text, software code, images and other media — based on human prompts.