Mark Zuckerberg was all smiles recently after boasting about the company’s open AI model family Llama hitting one billion downloads around the globe.
This is major news as it went up from 650M installs seen last December, which is a 53% rise to be more exact over just three months. Today, Llama powers the firm’s Meta AI chatbot that’s found on Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook apps. It’s part of the organization’s year-long bid to give rise to wide ranging of AI products.
Meta produces the models and tools needed to fine-tune as well as customize the products available free of cost under the right licenses. Some arch-rivals in the industry have already waged a legal battle with Meta’s Llama and the licensing terms involved. We’ve also seen Llama get massive success and popularity since it rolled out in 2023. Plenty of firms such as Spotify, DoorDash, and AT&T make use of these models for production today.
Despite the massive success, there are plenty of setbacks that have come across Llama’s way including the mega AI copyright legal case. This accuses the tech giant of training many mods using e-books protected by copyrights without taking permission first. So many EU nations have forced the firm to delay and even cancel launch for Llama related to these privacy issues.
Llama’s performance has also been impacted by models such as China’s DeepSeek R1. Meta mentioned how it’s scrambling hard to set war rooms to add learnings from DeepSeek to the company’s development. Recently, we saw the tech giant mention how it would be spending more money on various AI projects in 2025.
The tech giant does hope to roll out different Llama models over the next couple of months such reasoning models along the lines of the organization’s o3-mini. Some of the models feature native multimodal features. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg shared how users can soon anticipate more agentic features where the models take actions on behalf of the user.
Zuckerberg shared his thoughts on Llama during the company’s earnings calls for Q4 2024. This includes how this might be the year for its growth as one of the most popular and advanced AI models to date. They hope Llama can lead the way to success. We might be seeing more on that front at this year’s LlamaCon which is the tech giant’s first generative AI developer conference that will arise on April 29.
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This is major news as it went up from 650M installs seen last December, which is a 53% rise to be more exact over just three months. Today, Llama powers the firm’s Meta AI chatbot that’s found on Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook apps. It’s part of the organization’s year-long bid to give rise to wide ranging of AI products.
Meta produces the models and tools needed to fine-tune as well as customize the products available free of cost under the right licenses. Some arch-rivals in the industry have already waged a legal battle with Meta’s Llama and the licensing terms involved. We’ve also seen Llama get massive success and popularity since it rolled out in 2023. Plenty of firms such as Spotify, DoorDash, and AT&T make use of these models for production today.
Despite the massive success, there are plenty of setbacks that have come across Llama’s way including the mega AI copyright legal case. This accuses the tech giant of training many mods using e-books protected by copyrights without taking permission first. So many EU nations have forced the firm to delay and even cancel launch for Llama related to these privacy issues.
Llama’s performance has also been impacted by models such as China’s DeepSeek R1. Meta mentioned how it’s scrambling hard to set war rooms to add learnings from DeepSeek to the company’s development. Recently, we saw the tech giant mention how it would be spending more money on various AI projects in 2025.
The tech giant does hope to roll out different Llama models over the next couple of months such reasoning models along the lines of the organization’s o3-mini. Some of the models feature native multimodal features. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg shared how users can soon anticipate more agentic features where the models take actions on behalf of the user.
Zuckerberg shared his thoughts on Llama during the company’s earnings calls for Q4 2024. This includes how this might be the year for its growth as one of the most popular and advanced AI models to date. They hope Llama can lead the way to success. We might be seeing more on that front at this year’s LlamaCon which is the tech giant’s first generative AI developer conference that will arise on April 29.
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