Meta’s Llama Synthetic Intelligence (AI) fashions are being utilized by corporations together with Goldman Sachs and AT&T for enterprise capabilities like customer support, doc assessment and laptop code era, the social media large mentioned in an announcement on Thursday.
The largely free-of-charge Llama fashions have been downloaded virtually 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 three 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 corporations plowing billions into AI have confronted questions from buyers about how widespread adoption of the expertise seems to be and what sort of payoff they’ll anticipate for his or her spending.
Meta Chief Government Mark Zuckerberg has argued that constructing state-of-the-art AI fashions and giving them away without spending a dime greatest 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 develop into the business commonplace is by being persistently aggressive, environment friendly, and open era after era,” Zuckerberg wrote final month.
Though massive language fashions like Llama have wowed customers with their potential to generate human-like prose on command, they proceed to battle 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 options, like fashions from business chief OpenAI.
Different corporations it mentioned had been utilizing Llama embody Japanese financial institution Nomura Holdings, meals supply service DoorDash {and professional} providers supplier Accenture.
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