Open source AI
Creating a positive future by making innovation available to all and enabling advancements that can enhance our lives and spur economic growth.
Open source AI provides tools for more people to build awesome things and expand our horizons.
Think of it like a community garden, where anyone can plant, grow and harvest fruits and vegetables. The garden space is provided – just like how Meta provides the AI model. Anyone can choose to grow what they like according to their individual preferences and needs and learn from others as they go. The more people that plant and care for the garden, the better it is.
Open source AI provides tools for more people to build awesome things and expand our horizons.
By giving more people access to immense opportunities and benefits, open source AI has the power to drive discoveries that enhance our lives and spur economic growth.
Think of it like a community garden, where anyone can plant, grow and harvest fruits and vegetables. The garden space is provided – just like how Meta provides the AI model. Anyone can choose to grow what they like according to their individual preferences and needs and learn from others as they go. The more people that plant and care for the garden, the better it is.
"I believe that open source is necessary for a positive AI future.
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. Open source will ensure… that power isn’t concentrated in the hands of a small number of companies and that the technology can be deployed more evenly and safely across society."
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO
Read the full op-edSEE WHAT OPEN SOURCE CAN DO
When AI is open source, it’s available to all—and when it’s available to all, everyone benefits.
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
FoondaMate
Many of the 3 million students who use Foondamate sit in classes of 50-70 students, where individual teacher attention is scarce and a textbook for each child isn’t guaranteed. Foondamate - or “study buddy” in Zulu - is a 24/7 study aid, built with open source AI, to help middle and high school students clarify challenging concepts, prepare for exams and more.
SOUTH KOREA
Upstage
Upstage is an AI solutions startup that fine-tuned their Al model with Llama. Its flagship product, Ask Up, is the first Korean chatbot service used by almost 1.3 million people.
JAPAN
Elyza
Elyza is Japanese AI startup, that has developed a Japanese commercial Large Language Model using Meta Llama, for applications such as chatbots, and text generation to improve workplace efficiency.
US
City of Hope Cancer Research & Treatment Center
City of Hope National Medical Center used Meta’s open source AI model to build clinical tools for cancer doctors, including a tool to generate summaries of clinical notes to help doctors quickly catch up on patient information. They are also working on a clinical trial matching tool to help match patients with relevant clinical trials.
Discover how startups and organizations are building with open source AI.
Open source AI is helping level the playing field across the globe, enabling companies of all sizes to use state-of-the-art AI models and make advancements across education, medicine and more.
SPAIN
Barcelona Super Computer
Leveraging Llama 3, Barcelona Super Computer launched ‘Aloe’ and ‘Aloe Vera’ - a family of healthcare Language Models that are designed to provide high quality textual answers and visual analysis of medical questions - including radiology scans and MRIs. It includes healthcare specific training that increases clinical knowledge, as well as an advanced inference mechanism to boost performance.
FRANCE
SNCF
Sncf Group, Alp Valley and their partners integrated Llama 3.1 to create a voice-enabled virtual assistant for Paris' Gare du Nord, the largest station in Europe, unveiled at Vivatech Paris and the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.
GERMANY
TU Dresden
TUD Dresden University of Technology is a leading German research institution renowned across Europe, known for its innovation and interdisciplinary work in health sciences, biomedicine, and bioengineering. Within this field, its Clinical AI research group at the Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health is transforming cancer care through computational innovation, focusing on precision oncology. The group collaborates to develop methods that enhance clinical decision-making in cancer care.
GLOBAL
UNESCO Language Translator
The UNESCO Language Translator is built on Meta’s No Language Left Behind (NLLB) open-source AI model, and hosted on Hugging Face spaces. Launched in 2022 by Meta’s Fundamental AI Research lab (FAIR), NLLB is a first-of-its-kind, open-source AI breakthrough project that is capable of delivering evaluated, high-quality translations directly between 200 languages—including low-resource languages like Asturian, Luganda, Urdu and more.
GLOBAL
World Resources Institute
Reforestation, typically performed through tree planting, remains one of the most powerful tools for offsetting global carbon emissions. In collaboration with Meta, the World Resources Institute has leveraged open source AI to measure the height of every tree on earth. The team at WRI is using this dataset to monitor reforestation programs throughout Africa and assisting governments around the world to do the same.
Our commitment to transparent and secure AI
More eyes mean better AI
With a larger community of developers reviewing the code, issues are spotted and resolved faster. We and others stress test our products to improve safety performance, and we work with policymakers, experts in academia and civil society, and those in our industry to advance our open approach to AI.
Learn about our commitmentOpen research is in our AI DNA
For more than a decade, Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team has been sharing cutting-edge research and collaborating with the global AI community. This research allows us to cement our understanding of emerging AI platforms and develop new product experiences.
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Learn moreCOMMUNITY
Investing in the
open source community
Our Llama Impact Program is comprised of grants, awards, hackathons, and community building programs aimed to identify ways that Llama can accelerate efforts to promote social and economic progress and solve policy challenges.
AI Alliance
Meta and IBM co-launched the AI Alliance, a community of over 70 tech creators, developers and adopters working together to advance safe, responsible artificial intelligence through open innovation.
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Open Innovation AI Research Community
Workshops and activities for academic researchers, designed to foster collaboration and knowledge-sharing between Meta and the research community to help garner key feedback on Meta’s approach to open source and future model development.
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Data for Good
Data for Good offers a variety of open source AI-driven datasets that can be used by governments, universities, and nonprofits around the world to strengthen service delivery and fuel scientific research.
Learn moreLearn how our recipients are tackling global issues using open source AI models.
Learn moreWe’re committed to building in the open and helping ensure that the benefits of AI extend to everyone. And a growing number of academics and entrepreneurs alike agree that open source AI is the right path forward.
Learn how others are building with open source AI
Zauron Labs | UT Health San Antonio
Zauron Labs used Meta’s open source AI, Llama, to build an AI tool that’s like a spellchecker for radiologists.
Yale | EPFL
Yale + EPFL used Meta’s open source AI, Llama, to build an AI tool that tailors medical guidance to help doctors in remote areas.
WriteSea
WriteSea used Meta’s open source AI, Llama, to build an AI tool that helps people with the job search.
Nanome
Nanome used Meta’s open source AI, Llama, to build an AI tool that helps scientists find new treatments for diseases.
Mendel
Mendel used Meta’s open source AI, Llama, to build an AI tool to help match patients to clinical trials.
Making AI openly available benefits everyone, including Meta
Meta has a long history of open source projects and successes. As more developers and companies use it, our AI becomes one of the global standards. That means Meta and many others can build the best experiences and products that people want to use. To do this, we must ensure that our company always has access to the best technology and that we’re not locked into a competitor’s proprietary ecosystem.
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