A spokesperson for the social media giant insisted Mark Zuckerberg's firm will not profit from the use of its language models by government agencies.
Faith Eischen said: “We’ve partnered with the US State Department to see how Llama could help address different challenges, from expanding access to safe water and reliable electricity, to helping support small businesses…been in touch with the Department of Education to learn how Llama could help make the financial aid process more user friendly for students and are in discussions with others about how Llama could be utilized to benefit the government.”
Llama is a family of autoregressive large language models (LLMs) released by Meta AI in February 2023. The most recent version, Llama 3.3,was released in December 2024.
Meta - the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp - is certainly making waves in the political sphere, having just donated $1 million to president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund.
After the tech and social media mogul Zuckerberg, 40, dined with the 78-year-old Republican at his Mar-a-Lago resort last month, he's now pledged his support by donating the huge sum towards the collection to cover the costs of Trump's swearing-in ceremony on January 20.
The pair have put the past behind them as they've not always seen eye to eye.
Meta's Facebook and Instagram suspended Trump's accounts on the apps in 2021, after he allegedly showed his support to the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
Trump - who previously held office at the White House between 2017 and 2021 - previously branded Facebook "an enemy of the people".
The former reality star is also close buddies with another tech mogul, Tesla and X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk, 53, who he has made the head of his newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) alongside Vivek Ramaswamy.
Zuckerberg and Musk have had a frosty relationship, which heightened after the latter acquired Twitter for $44 billion in 2022.
