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.
“Now we have hundreds of builders contributing tens of hundreds of by-product fashions being downloaded lots of of hundreds 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 large faces competitors from a lot of formidable gamers within the AI house. Simply on Monday, Alibaba launched Qwen 3, a household of fashions that’s extremely aggressive on a lot of AI benchmarks.