On Wednesday, Meta Facebook held its third quarter earnings call and dropped this gem:

[Meta is] working with the public sector to adopt Llama across the US government

Mark Zuckerberg

So far, Meta is claiming they’re partnering with the US State Department to explore how their large language model, Llama, could be used to bring clean water and electricity to impoverished communities around the world.

They detailed other speculative use cases:

[we’ve] 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.

Faith Eischen, Meta Spokesperson

There weren’t many details exactly how they’re making this partnership work. Meta has stated there “is no payment” involved with these partnerships. Not clear if that’s no payment to or from the government in these experiments.

At the end of the call, Meta dropped hints at Llama 4 due in 2025. It’s being trained on the largest cluster ever reported, new modalities, and faster than Llama 3. Facebook is doing well. In their earnings call they announced, $19.3 billion in profit this past quarter. Threads has 275 million monthly users now, and 3.2 billion users access Facebook daily.

One of them is not me.