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2. Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META)

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Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is a global technology company. On March 18, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Threads to announce that the company’s “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads. That’s an increase from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024, a 53% increase over a roughly three-month period. Llama is a family of open-source, large language models (LLMs) from Meta AI, and is part of Meta’s efforts to develop a comprehensive AI product ecosystem. These models and tools are free for use under a proprietary license.

“Llama, our open source collection of AI models, just hit 1 billion downloads. Open sourcing AI is crucial to ensuring people everywhere have access to the benefits of AI, and every download of Llama moves us closer to that goal.”

-Meta Platforms, Inc.