Neowin News Feed for: Llama

Google releases its most powerful open-source AI models yet, that's free to use commercially

Karthik Mudaliar — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:16:01 +0000

Google's Gemma 4 is its most powerful open-source model family to date. It beats rivals 20x its size, runs locally on consumer hardware, and comes with a fully unrestricted Apache 2.0 license. Read more...

GSA approves Meta's Llama for use across U.S. government agencies

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:24:01 +0000

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has officially approved Meta's Llama open-source AI models for use across federal government agencies. Read more...

Llama Fund is a controversial platform to crowdfund AI models

Usama Jawad — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:16:01 +0000

Someone has started a crowdfunding platform to finance LLMs which will eventually be released as open-source models, and it sounds like a terrible idea on paper. Read more...

After making job offers worth millions of dollars, Meta stops AI hiring

Usama Jawad — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:42:01 +0000

Meta has triggered an AI hiring freeze, likely because of investor concerns over the multi-million dollar expenditure involved in building the Superintelligence team. Read more...

Meta unveils Llama API said to deliver record-breaking inference speeds

Pradeep Viswanathan — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 03:54:01 +0000

At LlamaCon, Meta launched the Llama API in a limited free preview, aiming to increase developer access to its Llama models. Read more...

Unmodified Llama 4 Maverick ranks below rivals following Meta cheating allegations

David Uzondu — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:32:02 +0000

Meta's Llama 4 release was no doubt controversial for its ranking on the LMArena dashboard. Now, an unmodified version of Llama 4 Maverick has seen its ranking fall below months-old rivals. Read more...

Meta pushes back on Llama 4 benchmark cheating allegations

David Uzondu — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 04:58:01 +0000

Meta has been accused of manipulating Llama 4 to achieve higher benchmark scores, prompting a response from an executive who denied the allegations. Read more...

Foxconn unveils its own large language model distilled from Meta's Llama 3.1

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:38:01 +0000

Foxconn has announced its own large language model, FoxBrain, that it would use to streamline its manufacturing processes within the company. Read more...

Musk says Grok 3 will be rolled out in a week or two, claims it is 'scary smart'

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:38:01 +0000

Addressing the World Governments Summit in Dubai, Elon Musk claimed that Grok 3 is in its final stage of development and will be available very soon. Read more...

Leaked emails allegedly reveal Meta torrented terabytes of pirated ebooks for AI training

Omer Dursun — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 05:28:01 +0000

Leaked emails reveal that Meta allegedly torrented massive amounts of pirated ebooks to train its AI models. A new lawsuit details internal concerns and attempts to cover up the activity. Read more...

Meta plans to spend $65 billion on AI investments, amid DeepSeek superiority claims

Karthik Mudaliar — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:00:01 +0000

Meta says that it will invest up to $65 billion in 2025 for building AI at a time when DeepSeek, an open-source Chinese AI model has reportedly outperformed Meta's AI models. Read more...

Meta's Llama models now available to U.S. government agencies

Pradeep Viswanathan — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 04:10:01 +0000

Meta is making its open source AI model, Llama, available to U.S. government agencies for use in defense and national security applications. Read more...

Report: Chinese researchers used public Meta AI to build model for military purposes

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 06:58:01 +0000

According to a report, Chinese researchers have used an old version of Meta's open-source LLM to build an AI tool. The tool is meant for military purposes, but its capabilities are unknown. Read more...

Meta's new multimodal Llama 3.2 models now available on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud

Pradeep Viswanathan — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:50:01 +0000

Meta launched Llama 3.2 models, including vision and text-only models. Microsoft and Google have made these models available on their respective cloud platforms. Read more...

Mark Zuckerberg explains why open source AI is good for developers

Pradeep Viswanathan — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:36:01 +0000

Mark Zuckerberg believes that open-source AI is the future of AI, fostering unrestricted innovation similar to how open-source development has accelerated progress in other fields. Read more...

In a major first, Opera will now allow users to locally run LLMs

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:44:01 +0000

Opera will allow users using Opera One to run LLMs locally on their computers. The browser supports more than 150 models from 50 families including LLMs from Meta, Google, and more. Read more...

Meta announces Code Llama, an AI code-writing tool that rivals GitHub Copilot

Omer Dursun — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:10:01 +0000

Meta has released Code Llama, an open-source AI that can generate code and natural language responses to prompts. It supports popular programming languages such as Python, Javascript, and C++. Read more...

Qualcomm will work with Meta to add on-device Llama 2 support for smartphones and PCs

John Callaham — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:40:01 +0000

Qualcomm says it will team up with Meta so that its Llama 2 large language model for generative AI services can work on mobile devices without a need for cloud services, starting in 2024. Read more...

Microsoft teams up with Meta to help launch its new Llama 2 large language model

John Callaham — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:16:01 +0000

Llama 2 will be available for Microsoft's Azure customers with its safety tools. It will also be made available to run locally on Windows. It is free to use for research and commercial tasks. Read more...

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is releasing LLaMA AI language model for researchers

Paul Hill — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 17:10:01 +0000

Meta is preparing to launch LLaMA for researchers to assist in their work, according to Mark Zuckerberg. The large language model will also use an open model, accessible by researchers. Read more...

Minecraft Exploration Update is now available for everyone, for free

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:14:01 +0000

Version 1.11 of Minecraft, also known as the Exploration Update is now available for all Mac and PC users for free. The update brings lots of new locations, loot and content, including llama caravans. Read more...