Meta announced at its inaugural LlamaCon developer conference that downloads of its Llama AI models have now surpassed 1.2 billion, up significantly from 1 billion downloads reported in mid-March and about 650 million in early December 2024.
Chris Cox, Meta’s Chief Product Officer, highlighted this rapid growth, noting that the open-source community around Llama is thriving. “Thousands of developers are contributing tens of thousands of derivative models which themselves are being downloaded hundreds of thousands of times every month,” Cox stated during his keynote presentation.
Additionally, Meta AI, the company’s AI-powered assistant built using the Llama models, has achieved nearly one billion users, Cox revealed.
However, despite the impressive adoption rates and vibrant developer engagement, Meta faces intense competition in the AI modeling space. This week, Alibaba notably introduced its own advanced AI models, called Qwen 3, which have demonstrated strong performance on various industry-recognized benchmarks.
