At the LlamaCon conference, which took place today, April 29, Meta announced that its Llama artificial intelligence models have been downloaded 1.2 billion times, TechCrunch reports.
This is a significant increase from 1 billion downloads in March 2025 and 650 million in December 2024. According to Meta's Director of Product, Chris Cox, thousands of developers create tens of thousands of derivative models that are downloaded hundreds of thousands of times each month.
Meta also announced that its artificial intelligence assistant Meta AI, built on Llama models, already has about a billion users.
Despite the rapid growth of the Llama ecosystem, Meta faces competition from other big AI players. For example, Alibaba recently introduced a new series of Qwen 3 models that demonstrate high performance in many metrics.