The meta launches a recent program encouraging to start to accept their AI Lama models.
Program, Lama for startupsprovides the company with “direct support” of the Meta Lama team, in addition to financing in some cases. Each American company that is registered has collected financing of lower than $ 10 million, has at least one programmer on staff and builds generative AI applications are authorized to submit the application inside May 30.
“Members can receive up to $ 6,000 per month for up to six months to help them compensate for the costs of building and improving their generative AI solutions,” wrote Meta in A Blog post. “Our experts will work closely with them to start and examine advanced cases of using lama that could benefit their startups.”
The introduction of the startup program Llammy appears when the finish tries to strengthen its advantage in an extremely competitive open space. While the lama of the technological giant has so far gathered over a billion downloads, rivals comparable to Deepseek, Google and Qwen Alibaba threaten to increase Meta efforts to establish a long -range model ecosystem.
Without helping in matters, Llam has suffered several failures in the last few months.
The Wall Street Journal last week Reported The finish delayed the introduction of the flagship AI model, Lama 4 Behemoth, about fears of the model of worse results on key comparative tests. In April, Meta had to refute the allegations that he was cheating on the popular AI Crowdsourced, LM Arena reference point. The company used the version of its Llam 4 Maverick model “optimized for conversations” to achieve a high result on LM Arena, but publicly released a different version of Maverick.
The meta has huge ambitions for Lama – and a wider generative portfolio AI. Last 12 monthsThe company predicted that AI generative products would enrich revenues from $ 2 to $ 3 billion in 2025 and from $ 460 to $ 1.4 to $ 2035.
The meta has contracts for the division of revenues with some firms that host Llam models. The company has recently launched the API interface to adapt Llam’s publications. And Meta AI, an AI assistant to the company powered by Lama, can ultimately show ads and offer a subscription with additional functions, CEO of Mark Zuckerberg he said During the merger of the company’s Q1 profits.
These products turned out to be expensive. In 2024The “Genai” finish budget was over $ 900 million, and this 12 months it could actually exceed $ 1 billion. This does not include the infrastructure needed to start and train models. Meta said earlier that he plans to spend from 60 billion to $ 80 billion on investment expenses in 2025, mainly in recent data centers.