Meta The company issued a press release yesterday disclosing its Llama Open Source AI ModelsThe family's downloads at Hugging Face, where the model was downloaded more than 20 million times in the last month alone (Aug. 1-Aug. 31).As of September 1, the Llama model family has surpassed 350 million downloads worldwide!.
Referring to the IT House report, Meta released LLM Llama 3 in April this year and Llama 3.1 in July this year, which extended the context length to 128K, added support for 8 new languages, and provided a 405B parameterized version for the first time, Meta mentioned thatThe version "Llama 3.1-405B" is currently "most popular"..
On the partner front, Meta mentioned that they have partnered with Databricks, Dell, Google Cloud, Groq, NVIDIA, IBM watsonx, Scale AI, Snowflake, and others to provide Llama models, following Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Since the company released Llama 3.1 in July, Llama usage (in tokens) on "major cloud partner platforms" is said to have doubled.
Meta also said in a press release that they have increased the number of partners in the Llama 3.1 Early Trial Program and will continue to expand the partner lineup in the future.