Introducing the Llama Startup Program

Better hurry:<p>&gt; <i>Applications for the initial cohort close on May 30, 2025 at 6:00 pm PT.</i>

&gt; Funding + Support -&gt; Apply for Llama Startup Program by May 30 -&gt; Vision<p>Feels a little backwards, no? Perhaps should have consulted Gemini.

Quick summary: Apply for up to $6K reimbursement per month for up to 6 months for Llama usage (wherever you use it). Incorporated startups with less than $10 million USD in funding are eligible. (disclosure: I work at Meta as Llama Partner Engineer)

Does anyone know of a good list of similar programs (cloud credits for startups)?

How does this program, or the adoption of Llama in general, benefit Meta?

<i>&quot;for early-stage startups in the United States&quot;</i>

&gt; and may help to fund their use of Llama models.<p>I love open weight (and better open source) LLMs and wish Llama all the best! But God help Meta if they have to pay startups to entice them to use their open weights model.

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Unfortunately, limited to US only.

&gt; Eligibility: Based in the U.S.<p>_sigh_

To confirm, an LLC with a solo dev wouldn’t qualify?

Am I the only one disappointed that it wasn’t a desktop app with a big splash screen picture of a llama on startup?

Waiting for an obligatory WinampAI post because... It Really Whips the Llama&#x27;s Ass.

Make a good model first. Then you can start pushing for usage. Llama 4 isn&#x27;t even the best open source non-reasoning model.

love it. any llm can be made to perform reliably and accurately which is the biggest pre-requisite when it comes to creating an &quot;AI Agent&quot;. I think this gives people the opportunity to start somewhere because they can leverage multi-pass prompting frameworks like TSCE to scale: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AutomationOptimization&#x2F;tsce_demo">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AutomationOptimization&#x2F;tsce_demo</a>. despite the fact that &quot;llama isn&#x27;t the best&quot;

My company qualifies for their criteria but Llama has been so bad compared to actual frontier models it doesn&#x27;t seem worth it.<p>They should probably remove the restriction that you need to be incorporated and open it up to college students or something.