In a blog Last July, Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said that “selling access” to the Llama Ai models of Meta “is not [Meta’s] Corporate model. “Yet Meta is at least a few Llama money through income sharing agreements, according to a newly expelled judicial file.
THE depositSubmitted by lawyers for the complainants in the copyright trial Kadrey v. Meta, in which Meta is accused of having formed her Llama models on hundreds of pirated electronic books teraoctets, reveals that meta-parties a percentage of income “that companies hosting its LLAMA models generate from users of these models.
The deposit does not indicate which specific hosts pay Meta. But Meta ferties a number of Lama host partners in various blog publicationsIncluding AWS, Nvidia, Databricks, Groq, Dell, Azure, Google Cloud and Snowflake.
Developers are not required to use a lama model via a host partner. The models can be downloaded, refined and run on a different range of equipment. But many hosts provide additional services and tools that facilitate the simpler and easier LLAMA models.
Zuckerberg mentioned the possibility of accessing access to LLAMA models During a call for results last AprilWhen he also floated Llama monetization by other means, as through commercial messaging services and announcements in “IA interactions”. But he did not describe the details.
“”[I]F You are someone like Microsoft or Amazon or Google and you will mainly review these services, this is something that we think we should get part of income for income, “said Zuckerberg.” So these are the offers we intend to make, and we started to do it a little. “”
More recently, Zuckerberg assertive The fact that most of the value that the meta derives from Llama is in the form of improvements in the models of the AI research community. Meta uses Lama models to supply a number of products on its platforms and properties, including the Meta AI assistant, Meta Ai.
“I think it’s a good deal for us to do it openly”, Zuckerberg said when calling Meta 2024 winning winnings. “”[I]T makes our products better rather than if we were just on an island building a model that no one was a bit standardizing in the industry. »»
The fact that Meta can generate income in a rather direct way of Llama is significant because the applicants of Kadrey v. Meta claim that Meta not only used hacked works to develop Llama, but facilitated counterfeiting by “sowing” or download, these works. The complainants allege that Meta has used collaborator torrents to obtain electronic books for training and, in the process – because of how the torrent works – shared electronic books with other torrents.
Metal-plans for significantly Its capital expenses this year, largely thanks to its growing investments in AI. In January, the company said it would spend $ 60 billion – $ 80 billion on CAPEX in 2025 – about double Meta CAPEX in 2024 – mainly in data centers and increase the company’s development teams.
Probably compensate for part of the costs, Meta is would have considered Launch of a subscription service for Meta AI which will add unpertified capacities to the assistant.
Updated 3/21 at 1:54 p.m.: A Meta spokesperson pointed Techcrunch to This gains call transcription for an additional context. We have added a Zuckerberg quote – in particular a quote on Meta’s intention to the share of income with large hosts of Lama models.
