Llama

Llama is a series of open-weight AI models released by Meta. This is the epitome of a free public model.

This is a series of open-weight large language models released by Meta. Anyone can download the model file and use it for research or service. It is considered to be the driving force behind the open model ecosystem.

It is widely used by developers who want to run AI on their own servers or PCs, and companies who want to customize AI themselves. Tools like Ollama allow you to run it on your personal computer.

It is worth noting that it is an open license with terms and conditions rather than being completely open source. It is competing in performance with other public models such as Qwen.

✅ Strengths

• You can download it for free and run and modify it yourself
• Huge ecosystem of derived models and tools
• Suitable for self-built AI that does not send data externally

⚠️ Limits

• To operate it yourself, you need significant hardware and technical knowledge
• There are many evaluations that there is a performance difference from the top commercial model
• There are usage conditions in the license, so confirmation is required for commercial use.