Meta’s open source Llama AI sees exponential popularity growth as major companies adopt it

Meta claims this growth was only possible because of the company’s belief in open source AI, something CEO Mark Zuckerberg is heavily onboard with. It also helps that Llama seems to be a competently put together AI model. Every time I’ve used it I’ve been impressed, much more than Gemini at least.

Meta also gave some examples of big companies using Llama to streamline their operations or increase productivity. For example:

• AT&T uses Llama for customer service
• DoorDash uses Llama to streamline daily tasks for software engineers
• Goldman Sachs uses Llama for information extraction from documents
• Zoom uses Llama to power its AI companion
• And even Niantic’s Peridot game for AR pets uses Llama to make said pets feel alive