Meta posted an update on how their Llama big-tongue models are performing, and it looks like they’re doing so well that they’re now “approaching 350 million downloads to date.” This is 10 times more downloads compared to the same period last year. About 20 million of those downloads have occurred in the last month alone since the company launched Llama 3.1says its latest LLM can now rival OpenAI and Anthropic.
Llama’s monthly usage increased tenfold for some of Meta’s largest cloud service providers between January and July of this year, the company said. From May to July, Llama usage more than doubled with token volume, especially on cloud partners. Along with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, the company has teamed up with Databricks, Dell, Google Cloud, Groq, NVIDIA, IBM watsonx, Scale AI and Snowflake, among others, to make their LLMs more accessible to developers.
Meta attributed Llama’s growing use to “the power of open source.” It said that making LLMs accessible to everyone allowed it to see “a vibrant and diverse AI ecosystem coming to life where developers have more options and capabilities.” When Meta released Llama 3.1, Mark Zuckerberg touted the benefits of open source AI. is calling this is the “way forward”. He also talked about the steps Meta is taking to make open source AI an industry standard.
In his latest report, he gave examples of how companies are using Llama for their needs. AT&T appears to be using Llama to refine customer searches, while DoorDash relies on LLM to simplify tasks for software engineers. Llama also creates real-time reactions from creatures called “Dots” in Niantic’s Tamagotchi game. Peridot. Meanwhile, Zoom is using Llama (along with other LLMs) to power an AI companion that can summarize meetings and take intelligent notes. “Innovation has been broad and fast, from startups pushing new boundaries to enterprises of all sizes using Llama to build on-premise or through a cloud service provider,” wrote Meta. “The industry is building and innovating with Llama, and we’re even more excited for the future.”
