Code Llama 70B Released
This announcement introduces the latest iteration of Code Llama, designated as version 70B, boasting unparalleled performance in code generation. It emphasizes the model's availability under the same licensing terms as its predecessors, including Llama 2, to foster both academic research and commercial innovation. The text provides a direct link for downloading the models and highlights one of the new additions, CodeLlama-70B-Instruct, which is fine-tuned for instruction-based tasks and achieves an impressive score of 67.8 on HumanEval, solidifying its position among the top-performing open models currently accessible. Code Llama is hailed as the optimal foundation for fine-tuning code generation models, and the community is encouraged to further enhance and build upon its capabilities.