GSA looks to expand federal use of ‘Llama’ under OneGov deal with Meta

The General Services Administration emphasized the benefits of open-source large language models in announcing an agreement with Meta to provide “Llama” across the federal government, GSA’s latest deal with a major artificial intelligence provider under the OneGov tech modernization initiative.

“As open source models, Llama models offer federal agencies the ability to retain full control over data processing and storage. Given the models are publicly available, technical teams can build, deploy, and scale AI applications at a lower cost, delivering...