Meta is launching a new program to encourage startups to adopt her Lama AI models.
The program, Lalama for StartupThe Meta Lama team funds companies in some cases with “direct help” to companies. Any US -based firm, which has collected less than $ 10 million, has raised funds, which contains at least one developer in the staff, and is making a generative AI application.
“Members can receive up to six months, up to 6,000, up to 6,000, for six months to meet the costs of construction and increase of their production AI solutions,” Meta wrote in A. Blog Post. “Our experts will work together to launch and find out the latest use of Lama, which can benefit them that can benefit them.”
The Lilma Startup program began when the Meta tries to strengthen its lead in the space of a tough competitive open model. Although Tech Dev’s Lama models have achieved more than one billion downloads to date, rivals like Deep SEC, Google, and Alibaba Kevin have threatened to intensify efforts for the establishment of a meta -sophisticated model environmental system.
Without not helping in matters, Lama has suffered many shocks in the past few months.
Wall Street Journal last week Reported Meta has delayed the rollout of the flagship AI Model, Lama 4 Behemott, after concerns about the model under -patterns on the key benchmark. In April, Meta had to stop the allegations that she cheated on a famous crowded Source AI Benchmark, LM Arena. To get a high score on LM Arena, the company used a version of its Lama 4 extradition model “better for conversation”, but released a different version of Maurock publicly.
There are great ambitions for Meta Lama – and its broader productive AI portfolio. Last yearThe company has predicted that its production AI products will increase from $ 2 billion to $ 3 billion in 2025 and between $ 460 billion to $ 1.4 trillion by 2035.
Some MATA companies have contracts to participate in revenue that hosted the Lama model. The company recently launched an API to customize the Lama release. And by Lama the company’s AI assistant meta AI, can eventually show ads and offer subscriptions with additional features, CEO Mark Zuckerberg Said During the company’s Q1 income call.
These products have been expensive to build. In 2024Meta’s “Geni” budget was more than 900 million, and this year, it can exceed $ 1 billion. This does not include the infrastructure required to run and train the model. Meta had previously said that she intends to spend $ 60 billion to $ 80 billion on capital costs, primarily on new data centers in 2025, in 2025.