Meta Says its Llama AI Fashions Being Utilized by Banks, Tech Firms

Meta’s Llama Synthetic Intelligence (AI) fashions are being utilized by firms together with Goldman Sachs and AT&T for enterprise features like customer support, doc assessment and laptop code technology, the social media big mentioned in an announcement on Thursday.

The principally free-of-charge Llama fashions have been downloaded nearly 350 million instances since Meta started releasing them publicly final 12 months, a rise from the 300 million downloads the corporate introduced when it launched the largest model of its newest Llama 3 mannequin in late July.

Utilization by way of cloud suppliers like Amazon Net Providers and Microsoft Azure has additionally elevated, greater than doubling between Might and July this 12 months, Meta mentioned.

The announcement comes as Meta and different tech firms plowing billions into AI have confronted questions from traders about how widespread adoption of the expertise seems to be and how much payoff they will anticipate for his or her spending.

Meta Chief Govt Mark Zuckerberg has argued that constructing state-of-the-art AI fashions and giving them away totally free finest positions the corporate to keep away from falling right into a place the place it’s constrained by a competitor’s closed expertise.

“The trail for Llama to turn out to be the business customary is by being constantly aggressive, environment friendly, and open technology after technology,” Zuckerberg wrote final month.

Though giant language fashions like Llama have wowed customers with their capacity to generate human-like prose on command, they proceed to wrestle with sure logical duties and are inclined to creating factual errors, limiting their adoption in enterprise contexts.

Nonetheless, Meta pointed to a handful of enormous enterprises dabbling with the Llama fashions as each proof of their utility and as an endorsement of their competitiveness with paid alternate options, like fashions from business chief OpenAI.

Different firms it mentioned had been utilizing Llama embrace Japanese financial institution Nomura Holdings, meals supply service DoorDash {and professional} providers supplier Accenture.

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