Meta AI
Meta's AI research group and publisher of the open-weight Llama family.
Timeline
Milestones
- Jul 2023
Llama 2
Open weights with a commercial-use licence make self-hosted LLMs a serious option for companies.
- Feb 2023
LLaMA
Strong models trained only on public data. The leaked weights ignite the open-model ecosystem.
- Feb 2023
Toolformer
A model teaches itself when to call APIs: an early sign of native tool use.
- May 2020
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
A generator conditioned on retrieved passages. The pattern behind most enterprise AI today.