# Llama

Tool · [Standard tools and platforms](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tools)

Also called: Meta Llama, LLaMA, Llama model, Lama

[Meta](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/meta)'s family of [AI models](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/model) whose [weights](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/weights) are published for download. [Developers](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/software-engineer) can run them on their own [hardware](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hard-tech) and [fine-tune](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/fine-tuning) them. Meta's newer models carry the Muse name.

**For example:** A startup that cannot send patient notes to an outside service runs a Llama model on its own [servers](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/server).

Official site: <https://www.llama.com>

## Connects to (7)

- [Open source vs open weights](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/open-source-vs-open-weights): Two labels for AI models that people often mix up.
- [Local model](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/local-model): A model that is downloaded and run on a person's own computer or a company's own servers, not on a provider's.
- [Weights](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/weights): The numbers inside a model that it learned during training.
- [Meta](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/meta): The company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
- [Gemma](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/gemma): Google's family of open-weights AI models, small enough that some run on a laptop or phone.
- [Meta AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/meta-ai): Meta's AI assistant, available in its own app and inside Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.
- [LM Studio](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/lm-studio): A free desktop app for downloading open AI models and running them on a person's own computer, with a chat window and a local API.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/llama