We are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of OCI Generative AI service in the ORD (us-chicago-1) region. 

Generative AI is a fully managed service that provides a set of state-of-the-art, customizable large language models (LLMs) from Cohere and Meta (Llama-2) that cover a wide range of use cases for text generation and text embeddings. 

The service offers: 

• A Console playground feature that lets you try out the pretrained foundational models out-of-the-box and on-demand
• Dedicated AI clusters to fine-tune foundational models based on your own data
• Dedicated AI clusters to host custom, fine-tuned models. 

For text generation,

We offer the following models from Cohere: 

• Command XL (52B) 
• Command Light (6B) 

and the following model from Meta: 

• Llama-2 (70B) Chat 

For text representation (embeddings), we offer the following models from Cohere: 

• Embed English v3.0 
• Embed English Light v3.0
• Embed Multilingual v3.0 
• Embed Multilingual Light v3.0 
• Embed English Light v2.0 

Both Cohere Commad XL and Light are available for fine-tuning. All foundational models can be hosted on dedicated AI clusters. For information about the service, see the Generative AI documentation.