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Reuters: PLA-linked researchers built military model ‘ChatBIT’ on Meta’s Llama 2

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Source: Reuters (via Dawn)Also reported by Taipei Times

Reuters reported on 1 November 2024 that six researchers from three Chinese institutions, including two under the PLA’s Academy of Military Science, described in a June paper a model called ChatBIT built on Llama 2 13B and tuned on about 100,000 military dialogue records for intelligence and decision support. Reuters could not confirm its capabilities and computing power. Meta said any use of its models by the People’s Liberation Army was unauthorised and against its acceptable use policy.

Why it matters

The case put open-weights model releases at the centre of US export-control and national-security debate, since licence terms could not stop a foreign military from fine-tuning them.

When
1 Nov 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0136
Where
China
Who
People’s Liberation Army, Academy of Military Science, Meta, Beijing Institute of Technology

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Reuters (via Dawn) and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2024-0136: “Reuters: PLA-linked researchers built military model ‘ChatBIT’ on Meta’s Llama 2.” wheresthe.ai, 1 Nov 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/cn-pla-researchers-llama-chatbit-2024-11/ (source: Reuters (via Dawn)).

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