"Meta's Llama Models Reach 1 Billion Downloads, Zuckerberg Announces"
April 10, 2025
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In a quick post on Threads Tuesday morning, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that their "open" AI model family, Llama, reached a whopping 1 billion downloads. That's a big jump from the 650 million downloads they had back in early December 2024, showing a growth of about 53% in just three months.
Llama is the brains behind Meta AI, the assistant you find across Meta's platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. It's all part of Meta's plan to build a broad AI ecosystem. They offer the models and the tools to tweak and customize them for free, but under a proprietary license that's got some strings attached.
Despite some grumbling about the license terms, which can be a bit tough on commercial use, Llama has really taken off since its 2023 launch. Big names like Spotify, AT&T, and DoorDash are using Llama models in their operations right now.
But it's not all smooth sailing for Meta. They're in the middle of a legal battle over Llama, with accusations that they used copyrighted e-books to train the models without asking. Plus, some EU countries have put the brakes on Llama's rollout due to privacy worries. And let's not forget, Llama's been outpaced by other models like DeepSeek's R1 from a Chinese AI lab.
In response, Meta's been working hard, setting up "war rooms" to catch up with DeepSeek's tech and planning to drop a cool $80 billion on AI projects this year.
Looking ahead, Meta's got plans to roll out more Llama models in the coming months. They're talking about "reasoning" models similar to OpenAI's o3-mini, models that can handle multiple types of data at once, and even some with "agentic" features that can do things on their own.
Zuckerberg's pretty optimistic, saying during Meta's Q4 2024 earnings call in January, "I think this very well could be the year when Llama and open source become the most advanced and widely used AI models. Our goal for Llama this year is to lead."
We'll get more details at LlamaCon, Meta's first generative AI developer conference, happening on April 29.

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FredLee
April 10, 2025 at 9:54:55 PM GMT
Wow, 1 billion downloads for Llama models? That's insane growth! I've been using them for my projects and they're pretty solid. But, I wonder how many of those downloads are actually active users. Still, kudos to Meta for hitting such a huge milestone!
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NicholasSanchez
April 10, 2025 at 9:54:55 PM GMT
ラマモデルが10億ダウンロードに到達したなんて信じられない!私もプロジェクトで使ってますけど、かなり使えるね。でも、実際に使っているユーザーがどれだけいるのか気になります。でも、メタがそんなに大きなマイルストーンに到達したのは素晴らしいことだと思います!
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RyanAnderson
April 10, 2025 at 9:54:55 PM GMT
라마 모델이 10억 다운로드를 달성하다니 정말 놀랍네요! 제 프로젝트에서도 사용 중인데 꽤 괜찮아요. 그런데 실제로 사용하는 사용자가 얼마나 될지 궁금해요. 그래도 메타가 이렇게 큰 마일스톤을 달성한 건 정말 대단해요!
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HarryRoberts
April 10, 2025 at 9:54:55 PM GMT
1 bilhão de downloads para os modelos Llama? Isso é um crescimento insano! Estou usando eles nos meus projetos e são bem sólidos. Mas, me pergunto quantos desses downloads são realmente usuários ativos. Ainda assim, parabéns ao Meta por atingir um marco tão grande!
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JeffreyRamirez
April 10, 2025 at 9:54:55 PM GMT
¡1.000 millones de descargas para los modelos Llama? ¡Eso es un crecimiento loco! Los he estado usando en mis proyectos y son bastante sólidos. Pero, me pregunto cuántos de esos descargados son realmente usuarios activos. Aún así, felicidades a Meta por alcanzar un hito tan grande!
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RaymondNelson
April 12, 2025 at 1:36:55 AM GMT
Wow, Meta's Llama models hit 1 billion downloads? That's insane growth! I've been using it for my projects and it's pretty solid. But, can we get more frequent updates, Mark? Keep the momentum going!
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In a quick post on Threads Tuesday morning, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that their "open" AI model family, Llama, reached a whopping 1 billion downloads. That's a big jump from the 650 million downloads they had back in early December 2024, showing a growth of about 53% in just three months.
Llama is the brains behind Meta AI, the assistant you find across Meta's platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. It's all part of Meta's plan to build a broad AI ecosystem. They offer the models and the tools to tweak and customize them for free, but under a proprietary license that's got some strings attached.
Despite some grumbling about the license terms, which can be a bit tough on commercial use, Llama has really taken off since its 2023 launch. Big names like Spotify, AT&T, and DoorDash are using Llama models in their operations right now.
But it's not all smooth sailing for Meta. They're in the middle of a legal battle over Llama, with accusations that they used copyrighted e-books to train the models without asking. Plus, some EU countries have put the brakes on Llama's rollout due to privacy worries. And let's not forget, Llama's been outpaced by other models like DeepSeek's R1 from a Chinese AI lab.
In response, Meta's been working hard, setting up "war rooms" to catch up with DeepSeek's tech and planning to drop a cool $80 billion on AI projects this year.
Looking ahead, Meta's got plans to roll out more Llama models in the coming months. They're talking about "reasoning" models similar to OpenAI's o3-mini, models that can handle multiple types of data at once, and even some with "agentic" features that can do things on their own.
Zuckerberg's pretty optimistic, saying during Meta's Q4 2024 earnings call in January, "I think this very well could be the year when Llama and open source become the most advanced and widely used AI models. Our goal for Llama this year is to lead."
We'll get more details at LlamaCon, Meta's first generative AI developer conference, happening on April 29.




Wow, 1 billion downloads for Llama models? That's insane growth! I've been using them for my projects and they're pretty solid. But, I wonder how many of those downloads are actually active users. Still, kudos to Meta for hitting such a huge milestone!




ラマモデルが10億ダウンロードに到達したなんて信じられない!私もプロジェクトで使ってますけど、かなり使えるね。でも、実際に使っているユーザーがどれだけいるのか気になります。でも、メタがそんなに大きなマイルストーンに到達したのは素晴らしいことだと思います!




라마 모델이 10억 다운로드를 달성하다니 정말 놀랍네요! 제 프로젝트에서도 사용 중인데 꽤 괜찮아요. 그런데 실제로 사용하는 사용자가 얼마나 될지 궁금해요. 그래도 메타가 이렇게 큰 마일스톤을 달성한 건 정말 대단해요!




1 bilhão de downloads para os modelos Llama? Isso é um crescimento insano! Estou usando eles nos meus projetos e são bem sólidos. Mas, me pergunto quantos desses downloads são realmente usuários ativos. Ainda assim, parabéns ao Meta por atingir um marco tão grande!




¡1.000 millones de descargas para los modelos Llama? ¡Eso es un crecimiento loco! Los he estado usando en mis proyectos y son bastante sólidos. Pero, me pregunto cuántos de esos descargados son realmente usuarios activos. Aún así, felicidades a Meta por alcanzar un hito tan grande!




Wow, Meta's Llama models hit 1 billion downloads? That's insane growth! I've been using it for my projects and it's pretty solid. But, can we get more frequent updates, Mark? Keep the momentum going!












