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Meta opens Llama models to US defence and national security agencies

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Source: Meta

Meta said on 4 November 2024 it was making its Llama models available to US government agencies, including those working on defence and national security, and to contractors supporting them. It named partners including Accenture Federal Services, AWS, Anduril, Booz Allen, Databricks, Deloitte, IBM, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir, Scale AI and Snowflake.

Why it matters

US defence contractors could build on a free, open-weights model with named partner companies bringing Llama to agencies.

When
4 Nov 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0138
Who
Meta, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Scale AI, Anduril

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Meta. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0138: “Meta opens Llama models to US defence and national security agencies.” wheresthe.ai, 4 Nov 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/meta-llama-us-national-security-2024-11/ (source: Meta).

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