AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow’s R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems along the lines of GitHub’s Copilot.

Meta is adding another Llama to its herd—and this one knows how to code. On Thursday, Meta unveiled “Code Llama,” a new large language model (LLM) based on Llama 2 that is designed to assist ...