In mid-March, Meta mentioned 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’ve got 1000’s of builders contributing tens of 1000’s of spinoff fashions being downloaded a whole bunch of 1000’s of instances a month,” mentioned Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox onstage throughout a keynote.
In the meantime, 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 big faces competitors from various formidable gamers within the AI area. Simply on Monday, Alibaba launched Qwen 3, a household of fashions that’s extremely aggressive on various AI benchmarks.
