Recent breakthroughs in AI, and generative AI in particular, have captured the public’s imagination and demonstrated they have the potential to help communities create a new era of economic and social opportunity, and provide individuals, creators, and organizations new ways to express themselves and connect with people.
Building upon our ongoing commitment to support impactful applications of Llama, we are excited to announce the Llama 3.1 Impact Grants.
Llama 3.1 Impact Grants will incorporate both an open call for proposals as well as sourcing regionally specific use-cases from a series of events around the world. Winners will be identified in both tracks.
At least one event will be hosted in 5 regions before the end of October. These events will include hackathons, workshops, pitch competitions, and application-based demo days where Meta technical mentors will advise developers on how to optimize for building impactful applications with Llama 3.1 or Llama 3.2.
Organizations participating in these global events will need to indicate their participation on their Llama 3.1 Impact Grant application and will be entered into an additional specialized track within the Grant program. While still eligible to receive up to $500,000 USD, at least one or more Organization per region will be selected from this track to receive up to $100,000 USD in order to continue iterating on their project. For those considering participating in these events and entering this specialized track, we encourage you to submit your application after attending the event.
Region
Africa
Asia Pacific & India
Europe & UK
Latin America
Middle East & Turkey
North America
Month
September (closed)
October (closed)
October (closed)
August (closed)
September (closed)
September (closed)
September (closed)
September (closed)
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September (closed)
September (closed)
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October (closed)
October (closed)
November 16 - 18
November 29 - December 1
October (closed)
November 9 - 10
November 24 - December 1
October (closed)
October (closed)
August (closed)
September (closed)
November 22 - 24
November 23 - 24
November 8 - 10
Location
Vietnam (virtual)
Pan-Latin America (virtual)
The application window has been extended until 11:49 PM PT on December 1, 2024!
The application will be open from August 5 - December 1st. All proposals will be evaluated using a selection criteria that assesses:
Those teams whose proposals are selected as winners will be notified by April 2025. Applicants of interest and runners up may be notified by or beyond that time. Stay tuned for program updates.
Two webinars were hosted on October 2nd and 9th. FAQs were collected and updated during that event and the answers can be found below.
Applications will open August 5, 2024 at 9:00am PST and are due by 11:59 pm PST on December 1st, 2024.
Please keep an eye on the events calendar, as we continue to add additional events throughout the year. You can also check the events in your region, even if they aren’t close to you, to see if you may be eligible for virtual participation.
Yes. You are welcome to use Llama 3.2 or Llama 3.1 in your proposal.
Yes. However only one organization can be listed as the Principal Investigator and will be the entity that will receive the payment if selected as an awardee.
Applications must be for novel uses of Llama. If you have an existing application that uses Llama, you can still submit an application describing how you could build on that use in a novel way if you were selected, but applications seeking to exclusively scale existing products will not be selected.
No. There is no restriction for applying for other grants or funding opportunities.
Yes. Please reflect any overhead/indirect costs estimates in your proposal budget template and indicate how they are in line with your institutional standards.
Yes, as long as the country fails under the eligibility requirements listed in the program’s terms & conditions.
Please submit a proposal for the funds necessary to complete your proposed project within a 12-month timeframe, and make note of where other resources would be necessary (e.g., technical mentorship). Prize amounts will be based on described need and applicability to the program.
In addition to novel applications that directly contribute to social benefit, we are also interested in how Llama can be used to create tools that make it easier for developers to access and deploy the models. This might include contributions to Llama Stack, or open sourcing approaches for fine-tuning or other techniques that decrease compute costs for other developers.
You are not obliged to disclose the trained model weights, or the data employed in its training.
The number of awards will vary based on the caliber of applications received. At least one award per region will be granted to organizations who have participated in a qualifying Meta event in 2024, not to exceed $100,000 USD in total prize money per region. Grand prizes for open call applicants will also be awarded, not to exceed $500,000 USD per prize. Participants in qualifying events will be automatically considered eligible for awards under both tracks.
We will not accept files uploaded to the application. You can input text or url links to external materials, including links to news articles, blogs, or other public resources describing your use of Llama 3.1.
Yes! While technical expertise will be helpful to ensure your application contains sufficient evidence of your planned program or project, having an AI expert on staff is not required. Proposals will be evaluated using an equal weighted average between the evaluation categories listed on the program website.
In October 2023, we launched our inaugural Llama Impact Grants program, looking for innovative proposals from around the world that used our open source AI models to address major challenges in education, the environment, and technological innovation. We are now excited to announce the winners of this program!
We’re inspired by these and the many other diverse projects we’ve seen developers undertake around the world to positively impact their communities by building with Llama.
Communities around the world face barriers that prevent all their members from receiving equitable access to a quality education. From supporting teachers and students with creative tooling or translation needs to personalizing and improving educational outcomes across the globe, large language models can promote opportunities that open up new troves of educational resources for those who could most benefit from them.
Applicants submitting proposals under the Education track are encouraged to consider how Llama 2 could promote the discovery of new opportunities to deliver more equitable education outcomes in their own communities. The might include (but are not limited to) the following:
Operating sustainably and addressing environmental challenges through bold, meaningful action are paramount to our mission and essential to help the world avoid the worst effects of a dynamic environment.
Applicants submitting proposals under the Environment track are encouraged to consider how Llama 2 may be incorporated as a component of a solution to build a healthier and more sustainable world, including (but not limited to) the following:
Environment and education are only two domains where Llama 2 could be used to positively impact society. We believe there are multiple other domains, as well as intersectional ones, where our model can have an even greater positive impact on society.
We welcome all proposals that take an innovative approach to using Llama 2 for social good, including (but not limited to) the following:
Learn more about the 20 finalists across education, environment and open innovations below.
The application window is now closed. Those teams whose proposals are selected as finalists will be notified in January 2024. All applicants will be notified of their application status by February 2nd. Stay tuned for program updates.
Select representatives from each finalist team will be invited to attend an in-person refinement workshop where Meta AI researchers, open-source experts, as well as technical partners with subject matter expertise in each of the issue areas, will facilitate sessions to advise teams for how to expand their proposal into viable solutions that leverage Llama 2 to address key challenges within their sector.
Following the workshop, finalist teams will be encouraged to further collaborate and continue developing their solutions. At the end of July, each finalist team will submit an expanded proposal where they provide both a technical and impact roadmap that outlines how they would implement their solution. A more detailed selection criteria along with the submission deadline will be shared at the Refinement workshop. A panel of experts will review each finalist proposal and select awardees for each track. Each team selected will receive an award of $500,000.