New Delhi, May 14 -- Meta has recently announced the recipients of its 2024 Llama Impact Grants, spotlighting global innovators using open-source large language models (LLMs) to address critical social challenges. Among this year's honorees is India-based CognitiveLab, recognized for its groundbreaking projectNayana, which is transforming AI accessibility for linguistically diverse communities. The Llama Impact Grant will help scale Nayana's multilingual, multimodal capabilities-supporting over 22 languages and aiming to reach more than three billion people worldwide.

Launched in 2023, the Llama Impact Grants support the innovative use of Meta's open-source models-Llama 2, Llama 3, and the latest Llama 4-for projects with measurable soci...