On January 29th local time, Meta released the open-source big model Code Llama 70B, which Meta stated was "the largest and best performing model version in the Code Llama family.". Code Llama 70B offers three versions like other previous family models and can be used for free for research and commercial purposes. From the benchmark test results, Code Llama performs better than the open-source Llama specifically designed for coding, and even surpasses Llama2.