Meta has revenue sharing agreements with Llama AI model hosts, filing reveals
In one Blog post Last July Meta -CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that “access to access” to the openly available Llama AI models from Meta is “not” [Meta’s] Business model. “At least Meta makes some Lama’s money through agreements for sharing income, according to a new non-repacted court application.
The submitSubmitted by lawyers for the claimants in the copyright lawsuit Kadrey v. Meta, in which Meta is accused of training his LLAM models on hundreds of terabytes of Pirated e-books, reveals that Meta “shares a percentage of income” that organize the LLAM models of those models.
The submission does not indicate which specific hosts pay meta. But Meta mentions a number of Lama -Host partners in different blog postIncluding AWS, Nvidia, Databricks, Groq, Dell, Azure, Google Cloud and Snowflake.
Developers do not oblige to use a LLA model through a guest partner. The models can be downloaded, refined and performed on a series of different hardware. But many hosts offer extra services and tooling that makes getting LAMA models easier and easier.
Zuckerberg mentioned the possibility of permit access to LLA models During a profit call last AprilWhen he also drove income with Lama in other ways, such as through business message services and advertisements in ‘AI interactions’. But he did not outline details.
‘[I]Fu is someone like Microsoft or Amazon or Google and you are actually going to resell these services, that’s something we think we should get part of the income, “said Zuckerberg.” So those are the deals that we intend to close, and we started to do that a bit. “
More recent, Zuckerberg claimed That the majority of the value -meta comes from Llama comes in the form of improvements to the models of the AI research community. Meta uses LLAMA models to provide a number of products on its platforms and properties with electricity, including the AI assistant from Meta, Meta AI.
“I think it’s a good thing for us to do this in an open way,” Zuckerberg said during the profit call from Meta 2024. ‘[I]T makes our products better instead of when we were just on an island, building a model that nobody a bit standardized in the industry. “
The fact that Meta can generate income in a rather direct way of Lama is important because claimants in Kadrey v. Meta claim that Meta not only used illegal works to develop Lama, but an infringement of the violation of ‘sowing’, or uploading, these works. The claimants claim that meta secretly croping methods used to obtain e-books for training, and in the process-between the way in which torrenting works-the e-books shared with other turrents.
Meta is planning to increase its capital expenditure considerably this year, largely thanks to the increasing investments in AI. In January, the company said that it would spend $ 60 billion-$ 80 billion on Capex in 2025-Ruwweg Double Meta Capex in 2024 on data centers and the growth of the company’s AI development teams.
Meta is probably reportedly compensating for part of the costs, is considering launching a subscription service for Meta AI that does not add any specific options to the assistant.
Updated 3/21 at 1:54 PM: A spokesperson for Meta Be on WAN This wins transcript For extra context. We have added a Zuckerberg citense of it -in particular a quote about Meta’s intention to share income with large hosts of Lama models.
