Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the family of AI models, Llama, has been downloaded 1 billion times, a huge 53% up from December 2024. Llama, a key part of Meta’s AI system, drives Meta AI on all of its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Llama, despite some commercial limitations in its license, is still very successful and is being utilized by firms such as Spotify, AT&T, and DoorDash.
Yet, Meta is not without challenges, such as a copyright suit on training Llama on copyrighted ebooks and data privacy issues within the EU that have resulted in delay of launches. In addition, the performance of Llama has been eclipsed by competitors, whereupon Meta is heavily investing in developing AI and setting up “war rooms” to improve Llama.
Meta will release new versions of Llama with greater abilities preinstalled to make them more helpful. The new versions will include greater reasoning ability as well as multimodal ability that will greatly expand their use. Mark Zuckerberg has indicated his vision for Llama to become a major contender in the competitive realm of artificial intelligence this year. Aside from this, participants and interested parties can look forward to learning more about these plans through Meta’s forthcoming generative AI developer conference, called LlamaCon, and taking place on April 29.
