At its inaugural LlamaCon AI developer convention on Tuesday, Meta introduced an API for its Llama sequence of AI fashions: the Llama API.
Out there in limited preview, the Llama API lets builders discover and experiment with merchandise powered by completely different Llama fashions, per Meta. Paired with Meta’s SDKs, it permits builders to construct Llama-driven companies, instruments and functions. Meta didn’t instantly share the API’s pricing with TechCrunch.
The rollout of the API comes as Meta seems to be to keep up a lead within the fiercely aggressive open mannequin house. Whereas Llama fashions have racked up greater than a billion downloads so far, based on Meta, rivals resembling DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen threaten to upend Meta’s efforts to determine a far-reaching ecosystem with Llama.
The Llama API gives instruments to fine-tune and consider the efficiency of Llama fashions, beginning with Llama 3.3 8B. Clients can generate information, prepare on it, after which use Meta’s analysis suite within the Llama API to check the standard of their customized mannequin.
Meta mentioned it gained’t use Llama API buyer information to coach the corporate’s personal fashions, and that fashions constructed utilizing the Llama API could be transferred to a different host.
For devs constructing on prime of Meta’s not too long ago launched Llama 4 fashions particularly, the Llama API gives model-serving choices by way of partnerships with Cerebras and Groq. These “early experimental” choices are “obtainable by request” to assist builders prototype their AI apps, Meta mentioned.
“By merely choosing the Cerebras or Groq mannequin names within the API, builders can […] get pleasure from a streamlined expertise with all utilization tracked in a single location,” wrote Meta in a weblog put up offered to TechCrunch. “[W]e stay up for increasing partnerships with further suppliers to carry much more choices to construct on prime of Llama.”
Meta mentioned it is going to increase entry to the Llama API “within the coming weeks and months.”