Applications Invited for Llama 3.1 Impact Grants

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About the Organization

We’re driven to build incredible things that connect people in inspiring ways.

Because we can’t truly advance groundbreaking AI alone, we share our research and engage with the AI community to advance the science, together.

Whether it be in AI Infrastructure, Generative AI, NLP, Computer Vision or other core areas of AI, our focus is to connect people in inspiring ways through collaborative, responsible AI innovation.

About the Grant

In October 2023, we announced the inaugural Llama Impact Grants program—a global call for proposals to source innovative use cases of Llama, our open source AI models, to address critical global challenges in areas like education, the environment, and open innovation. Today, we’re excited to announce that applications are open for the next iteration of this program, the Llama 3.1 Impact Grants, through which we’ll award a total of up to $2 million USD. We’re seeking proposals that use the new features and capabilities of Llama 3.1 to explore how these tools can be deployed for economically and socially impactful projects.

We believe AI has more potential than any other modern technology to increase human productivity, creativity, and quality of life—and to accelerate economic growth while unlocking progress in medical and scientific research. To help realize this potential and help organizations around the world leverage the benefits of open source AI, we’ve expanded our grant program to a portfolio of grants, awards, hackathons, and community building to showcase how open source AI can promote social and economic progress. We’re inspired by the diverse projects we’ve seen developers undertake around the world to positively impact their communities by building with Llama.

We’re accepting proposals from eligible organizations across the world with an idea for how to use Llama 3.1 to address social challenges in their communities. Applications addressing areas including economic development, science and innovation, public service, and more will receive special consideration.

Regional Events

Over the past year, we’ve met with and learned from developers and other stakeholders that are already using Llama to address some of the challenges they and their communities face.

Building on those efforts, for our next round of Impact Grants, we’ll host a series of in-person and virtual events around the world to explore the new ways Llama 3.1 can address local community challenges, as well as to provide technical guidance and mentorship to prospective applicants. This will include programs such as virtual events and in-person hackathons, workshops, and trainings in Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Korea, Latin America, North America, Pakistan, Singapore, Sub-Saharan Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam.

Organizations participating in each of these events will be considered for a specialized award of up to $100,000 USD in addition to being considered for an open call award of up to $500,000 USD. We hope these events will facilitate the development of applications of Llama to the specific economic development and social impact opportunities in local environments.

How to Apply

Apply to the Llama 3.1 Impact Grants by November 22, 2024!

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