AI Launch Profile
Llama 3.2 vision and edge models
Meta released Llama 3.2 with 11B and 90B vision models plus lightweight 1B and 3B text models for edge and mobile devices.

At a glance
Launch Snapshot
- Company
- Meta
- Launch date
- September 25, 2024
- Launch type
- Open-Source Release
- Category
- AI Open-Weight Models
- Audience
- Developers, Enterprises, Researchers
- Pricing
- Weights available for download and partner platforms; usage costs depend on device, hosting, or inference provider.
- Free plan
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- Open weights/source
- Yes
Launch Context
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Verification & Sources
- Evidence state
- Recheck due
- Source links
- 2
- Freshness
- Needs recheck: checked June 8, 2026
- Last updated
- June 11, 2026
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Kingy Launch Score
8.0 / 10 · Solid
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Why this score
- Source & verification 7.5/10 — The official launch post plus the Meta Llama organization on Hugging Face — dated primary sources. ai.meta.com
- Product evidence 9.0/10 — Open weights downloadable on Hugging Face — 11B and 90B vision plus 1B and 3B edge models — with partner API availability. huggingface.co
- Significance & novelty 8.0/10 — Llama's expansion into open vision models plus edge-and-mobile-sized text models — a substantial widening of the open ecosystem. ai.meta.com
- Traction signals not scored — insufficient sourced evidence
- Offer clarity 7.0/10 — Weights are freely downloadable; usage costs depend on device, hosting, or inference provider. huggingface.co
Evidence checked 2026-07-10
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Kingy AI Take
Meta released Llama 3.2 — 11B and 90B vision models plus lightweight 1B and 3B text models for edge and mobile — with weights downloadable on Hugging Face and partner API access (ai.meta.com). Developers and Researchers building open multimodal apps, on-device assistants, and local workflows got the pieces directly. Check regional availability for your users and validate the small edge models on real devices before shipping, since capability at 1B and 3B varies sharply by task.
Who it is for
Developers building open multimodal apps, on-device assistants, document understanding, and local AI workflows.
Traction notes
Important because it broadened Llama beyond text into vision and smaller edge-friendly models.
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