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Ahmad Al-Dahle

@ahmad_al_dahle
14 posts
2026-01-15
Excited to share I'm joining Airbnb as CTO. Grateful for my time at Meta and the bold bet on open-sourcing Llama. 1.2B+ downloads, 60K+ derivatives, a global wave of open AI innovation. Thanks to Mark and Meta's leadership team for the opportunity. Model capabilities are
2026-01-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Airbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led the generative AI and Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to add more AI to its app

2026-01-14
Excited to share I'm joining Airbnb as CTO. Grateful for my time at Meta and the bold bet on open-sourcing Llama. 1.2B+ downloads, 60K+ derivatives, a global wave of open AI innovation. Thanks to Mark and Meta's leadership team for the opportunity. Model capabilities are
2026-01-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Airbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led the generative AI and Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to add more AI to its app

Airbnb Inc. has hired a former Meta Platforms Inc. executive as its new chief technology officer, as the short-term rental company …

2025-04-08
...That said, we're also hearing some reports of mixed quality across different services.  Since we dropped the models as soon as they were ready, we expect it'll take several days for all the public implementations to get dialed in.  We'll keep working through our bug fixes and onboarding partners.  We've also heard claims that we trained on test sets — that's simply not true and we would never do that.
2025-04-08 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta VP of Generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle denies a rumor that the company trained Llama 4 Maverick and Scout on test sets, saying that Meta “would never do that”

but the EU doesn't get everything Pascale Davies / Euronews : From a political shift to a more powerful AI: Everything to know about Meta's Llama 4 models Jay Bonggolto / Android C...

...That said, we're also hearing some reports of mixed quality across different services.  Since we dropped the models as soon as they were ready, we expect it'll take several days for all the public implementations to get dialed in.  We'll keep working through our bug fixes and onboarding partners.  We've also heard claims that we trained on test sets — that's simply not true and we would never do that.
2025-04-08 View on X
The Verge

LMArena says it is updating its leaderboard policies after a Llama 4 Maverick version, which Meta said in fine print is not public, secured the number two spot

With Llama 4, Meta fudged benchmarks to appear as though its new AI model is better than the competition.

2025-04-06
Introducing our first set of Llama 4 models! We've been hard at work doing a complete re-design of the Llama series. I'm so excited to share it with the world today and mark another major milestone for the Llama herd as we release the *first* open source models in the Llama 4 [image]
2025-04-06 View on X
Meta

Meta launches Llama 4 Maverick with 400B parameters and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window, and previews Behemoth with 2T total parameters

Takeaways  — We're sharing the first models in the Llama 4 herd, which will enable people to build more personalized multimodal experiences.

2025-03-18
Llama has surpassed 1 billion downloads 🚀 And we would not be where we are today without the contributions of the entire open source AI community - thanks to each of you who helped make Llama better. We threw together a short recap of some of the amazing things we have built [video]
2025-03-18 View on X
TechCrunch

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama models have been downloaded 1B times since their 2023 debut, up from 650M downloads in early December 2024

In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company's “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads.

2024-12-07
Introducing Llama 3.3 - a new 70B model that delivers the performance of our 405B model but is easier & more cost-efficient to run. By leveraging the latest advancements in post-training techniques including online preference optimization, this model improves core performance at [image]
2024-12-07 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta announces Llama 3.3 70B, a text-only model that Meta claims can deliver the performance of its largest Llama model at a lower cost

7.0M  —  2,040 … The fine-tuning data includes publicly available … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Meta Unveils New Llama 3.3 70B AI Model with Higher Cost-Efficiency Carl Fran...

2024-10-05
I couldn't be more excited to share our latest AI research breakthrough. We call it Meta Movie Gen and it's a collection of state-of-the-art models that combine to deliver the most advanced video generation capability ever created. Check it out: https://ai.meta.com/... [video]
2024-10-05 View on X
Wired

Meta announces Movie Gen, a suite of AI models for generating realistic video and audio clips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Movie Gen Audio has 13B

The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim.

I couldn't be more excited to share our latest AI research breakthrough. We call it Meta Movie Gen and it's a collection of state-of-the-art models that combine to deliver the most advanced video generation capability ever created. Check it out: https://ai.meta.com/... [video]
2024-10-05 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta Movie Gen can create up to 16-second videos based on a text prompt, available to some staff and external partners; Meta plans to add it to its apps in 2025

But a Demo Shows It Isn't Perfect Hamsat Abdurasheed / News.ng : Meta Takes On Open AI, Launches Advanced Video-Creation AI Tool, Movie Gen Raw Story : Meta AI turns pictures into ...

2024-10-04
I couldn't be more excited to share our latest AI research breakthrough. We call it Meta Movie Gen and it's a collection of state-of-the-art models that combine to deliver the most advanced video generation capability ever created. Check it out: https://ai.meta.com/... [video]
2024-10-04 View on X
Wired

Meta announces Movie Gen, a suite of AI models for generating realistic video and audio clips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Movie Gen Audio has 13B

The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim.

2024-08-31
On the heels of the update I shared on Llama yesterday, we're also seeing Meta AI usage growing FAST with 185M weekly actives! 🚀 [image]
2024-08-31 View on X
The Information

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has over 185M weekly active users and over 400M MAUs and it's “growing quickly” even without a rollout “in UK, Brazil, or EU yet”

usage of Meta AI across all of our surfaces is growing FAST!  🚀 Bluesky: @ndnickerson.bsky.social : okay this is just a hunch but after listening to @zitron.bsky.social 's podcast ...

2024-07-24
With today's launch of our Llama 3.1 collection of models we're making history with the largest and most capable open source AI model ever released. 128K context length, multilingual support, and new safety tools. Download 405B and our improved 8B & 70B here. [video]
2024-07-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta debuts Llama 3.1 405B, the “first frontier-level open source AI model”, as well as new Llama 3.1 70B and 8B models, and says it's working on Llama 4

With today's launch of our Llama 3.1 collection of models we're making history with the largest and most capable open source AI model ever released. 128K context length, multilingual support, and new safety tools. Download 405B and our improved 8B & 70B here. [video]
2024-07-24 View on X
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg argues that “open source AI” is the path forward, closed models are vulnerable to vendor lock-in and state-backed espionage, and more

RE: https://www.threads.net/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : You can find @zuck's full post here https://www.facebook.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Mark Zuckerberg has...

2024-04-19
It's here! Meet Llama 3, our latest generation of models that is setting a new standard for state-of-the art performance and efficiency for openly available LLMs. Key highlights • 8B and 70B parameter openly available pre-trained and fine-tuned models. • Trained on more... [image]
2024-04-19 View on X
The Verge

Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

What To Know About ‘Llama 3’ Model Marcus Gopolang Moloko / Memeburn : Meta AI with built in Llama 3 is on WhatsApp in South Africa Hamsat Abdurasheed / News.ng : Meta releases Lla...