Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has made a surprising move in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) by publicly releasing its A.I. technology. The company’s chatbot technology, called LLaMA, has been made available as open-source software, allowing anyone to freely access, modify, and utilize the underlying computer code to build their own chatbots. Meta’s decision stands in contrast to the increasing secrecy adopted by rivals Google and OpenAI, who are concerned about the potential misuse of A.I. tools. The release of LLaMA has raised debates about the risks and benefits of an open-source approach to A.I.