‘May the Source Be With You!’ — BigCode’s Open-Access StarCoder Outperforms All Existing Open Code LLMs

The rapid rise of generative AI — particularly the large language models (LLMs) that now dominate the natural language processing (NLP) domain — has put AI into the public spotlight like never before. As LLMs’ real-world applications continue to expand in scope, so too do concerns regarding the lack of transparency…