Recent breakthroughs in AI, and generative AI in particular, have captured the public’s imagination and demonstrated they have the potential to help people create a new era of economic and social opportunity, and give individuals, creators, and organizations new ways to express themselves and connect with people.
Building off a legacy of openly releasing tools to benefit the global community,
we introduced Meta Llama 2 in July 2023 and this past April we launched the next generation of our open source large language model – Meta Llama 3. This model demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of industry benchmarks and offers new capabilities, including improved reasoning.
Since their release, Llama 2 and Llama 3 have had over 180 million download requests and we know developers are already creating incredible tools with these models.
We are committed to identifying and supporting the use of these models to drive economic and social impact. So, if you are currently using Llama or intend to build on Llama, we would love to hear from you.
Any individuals/teams that:
1) Are building on Llama or other Large Language Models and intend to pivot to Llama
2) Have an existing product that leverages/intends to leverage Large Language Models to drive social and/or economic impact
3) Have technical resources and expertise to implement the proposed solution on Llama
4) Are affiliated with a:
• Valid business
• Non-profit organization
• Academic or Research institute as staff (not students)
*The organization has to be operational for at least 1 year
*Individuals affiliated with any government entity are not eligible to apply
All proposals will be evaluated using a selection criteria that assesses:
- Technical Feasibility: Llama is a central part of the proposed solution. There is a clear indication for how Llama will be used and is feasible given the capabilities of the model. The proposed solution may be novel interventions or refined through the use of Llama.
- Impact: The proposed solution articulates a vision for how their solution impacts the broader problem space and provides economic/social benefit. This might include how the solution works across geographies, addresses the needs of additional communities, or similar.
- Responsibility: The proposed solution articulates how it addresses responsible practices with regard to data security, privacy, and replicability. Ideal winners will be able to demonstrate how they utilized the Responsible Use Guidelines in the development of their project or product.
Applications will close on August 01, 2024. Shortlisted participants will be informed by August 16, 2024 and invited to an in-person pitch on August 20, 2024. The winner will go to Singapore to participate in the regional hackathon finals (expenses for the travel and stay will be borne by Meta).