Applications Invited for Llama Impact Grants

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About the Organization

Meta Platforms, Inc., doing business as Meta, and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. Meta ranks among the largest American information technology companies, alongside other Big Five corporations Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft.

About the Fellowship

Recent breakthroughs in AI, and generative AI in particular, have captured the public’s imagination and demonstrated they have the potential to help communities create a new era of economic and social opportunity, and provide individuals, creators, and organizations new ways to express themselves and connect with people.

Building off a legacy of open sourcing our products and tools to benefit the global community, we introduced Meta Llama 2 in July 2023 and have since introduced two updates – Llama 3 and Llama 3.1. These models demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of industry benchmarks and offer new capabilities, including support across eight languages and a 405B parameter version —the world’s first frontier-level open source AI model.

Since Llama’s release, we have continued to introduce programs intended to identify and support the use of these models for social impact, including the inaugural Llama Impact Grants in 2023 and Llama Impact Innovation Awards in 2024. These programs have solicited proposals from organizations who will use Llama to address some of the worlds’ most pressing challenges, including improving education, environment, and health care outcomes, as well as those who are already using Llama to address topics such as the delivery of public services, economic development, and sustainability.

Building upon our ongoing commitment to support impactful applications of Llama, we are excited to announce the Llama 3.1 Impact Grants.

At least one event will be hosted in 5 regions before the end of October. These events will include hackathons, workshops, pitch competitions, and application-based demo days where Meta technical mentors will advise developers on how to optimize for building impactful applications with Llama 3.1.

Organizations participating in these global events will need to indicate their participation on their Llama 3.1 Impact Grant application and will be entered into an additional specialized track within the Grant program. While still eligible to receive up to $500,000 USD, at least one or more Organization per region will be selected from this track to receive up to $100,000 USD in order to continue iterating on their project. For those considering participating in these events and entering this specialized track, we encourage you to submit your application after attending the event.

Eligibility

The application window is now open!

We encourage individuals affiliated with a valid business, non-profit organization, academic institution, or research institute in operation for at least one year to submit an application in keeping with the Grant program’s preferred qualifications by using this link.

How to Apply

The application will be open from August 5 - November 22, 2024.

Application

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