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 have thousands of developers contributing tens of thousands of derivative models being downloaded hundreds of thousands of times a month,” mentioned Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox onstage throughout a keynote.
Meanwhile, Meta AI, Meta’s AI assistant powered by Llama models, 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 a lot of formidable gamers within the AI area. Just on Monday, Alibaba launched Qwen 3, a household of models that’s extremely aggressive on a lot of AI benchmarks.