In mid-March, Meta stated that its “open” AI mannequin household, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads, up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024. On Tuesday at its inaugural LlamaCon developer convention, Meta revealed that determine has reached 1.2 billion downloads.
“We have 1000’s of builders contributing tens of 1000’s of by-product fashions being downloaded lots of of 1000’s of occasions a month,” stated Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox onstage throughout a keynote.
Meanwhile, Meta AI, Meta’s AI assistant powered by Llama fashions, has reached round a billion customers, Cox added.
Meta’s Llama ecosystem is rising at a quick clip certainly, however the tech large faces competitors from plenty of formidable gamers within the AI house. Just on Monday, Alibaba launched Qwen 3, a household of fashions that’s extremely aggressive on plenty of AI benchmarks.
