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title: "Meta, AWS Roll Out $6 Million Startup Program To Counter OpenAI, Make Llama The Go-To AI Model For Builders"
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description: "Meta Platforms Inc. and Amazon Web Services are launching a $6 million initiative to attract 30 U.S. startups to develop AI applications using Meta’s open-source Llama model. Each selected startup will receive $200,000 in AWS credits and six months of technical support. This partnership aims to counter OpenAI's closed-source models and promote open-source AI as essential for a positive future. The initiative could generate long-term revenue for AWS and comes as Meta faces legal challenges and competition in the tech space."
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# Meta, AWS Roll Out $6 Million Startup Program To Counter OpenAI, Make Llama The Go-To AI Model For Builders

**Meta Platforms Inc.** META and **Amazon Web Services** are launching a $6 million initiative to attract 30 U.S. startups to build AI applications using Meta’s open-source Llama model, positioning the partnership as a strategic counter to **OpenAI**‘s closed-source dominance.

**What Happened**: The program offers each selected startup $200,000 in AWS cloud computing credits and six months of technical support from both companies’ engineers. AWS Vice President **Jon Jones** told CNN the initiative aims to “empower founders to build transformative AI using Llama models,” with applications opening this summer.

For Meta, the collaboration comes as CEO **Mark Zuckerberg** pours billions into AI development, recently creating a superintelligence team and offering compensation packages up to $300 million over four years to poach top researchers from competitors, including OpenAI.

The company hired OpenAI researchers **Jason Wei** and **Hyung Won Chung** for its AI lab, following Zuckerberg’s strategy to make Llama the industry standard for AI development.

The partnership highlights the industry’s fundamental divide between open-source and closed-source AI models. While OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude remain proprietary, Meta’s Llama provides free access to its underlying code. Zuckerberg argues open-source AI is “necessary for a positive AI future” and will democratize the technology’s benefits.

**Why It Matters**: AWS customers already use Llama for financial technology tools and customer relationship management systems for auto dealerships. The initiative could generate long-term revenue for **Amazon.com Inc.** AMZN if startups continue using AWS services beyond the six-month program.

The timing coincides with Meta facing an $8 billion shareholder lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica privacy violations and intense competition from ByteDance’s Swan mixed reality goggles. Meta has invested $16 billion in Reality Labs and plans additional data center investments to support its AI ambitions.

“Startups are some of the most creative forces in tech,” said **Ash Jhaveri,** Meta’s vice president of AI partnerships. The program will select participants based on their technical capabilities and potential solution impact.

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