Meta has premiered Meta Movie Gen, a breakthrough generative AI research for media that enables users to produce custom videos and sounds, edit existing videos, and transform personal images into unique videos. The model outperforms similar models in the industry across these tasks when evaluated by humans. This research is part of Meta's long track record of sharing fundamental AI research with the community.

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The Llama Impact Innovation Awards have been announced, recognizing organizations in Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, Asia Pacific, and Latin America that use Llama to address local issues. Award winners will receive up to $35,000 USD and in-kind ad credits. The awards are part of Llama's commitment to open source AI, aiming to expand access and opportunity globally.

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Together AI, a leading AI acceleration cloud, has developed LlamaCoder, an open-source web app that generates an entire app from a prompt using Llama 3.1 405B. Since its release, the app has gained over 2,000 GitHub stars, with hundreds of developers cloning the repository and generating over 200,000 apps. Hassan El Mghari, a software engineer at Together AI, notes that developers are loving the app, which has been used to create various applications such as quiz apps and pomodoro timers.

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Meta CTO Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth spoke with media artist Refik Anadol on his podcast, Boz To The Future. Anadol's studio trains their own models, leveraging Meta's open source Llama collection of models. They are fine-tuning the text models and learning a lot.

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Upeo Labs, a Kenyan startup, has developed Somo-GPT, a generative AI tool that serves as a multi-subject teaching assistant for high school students, teachers, and parents. The tool is powered by Llama 3 and Llama 3.1 and is currently being used in closed beta at 500 high schools across Kenya. Somo-GPT aims to support Kenya's national curriculum digitization for high schools.

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Llama, the leading e-commerce platform, has experienced 10x growth since 2023. It has partnered with several major cloud service providers, including AWS, Azure, Databricks, and Google Cloud, to help developers unlock the full potential of its models. The platform's models have been downloaded over 350 million times on Hugging Face, with over 20 million downloads in the last month alone.

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