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At Snowflake, Llama powers workloads like summarizing sales call transcripts and extracting structured information from customer reviews. At the data platform company Dremio, Llama generates structured query language code and writes marketing emails.
"For 80% of applications, the model probably doesn't matter," Tomer Shiran, a cofounder and the chief product officer of Dremio, told BI. "All the models now are good enough. OpenAI, Llama, Claude, Gemini — they all meet a specific need that the user has."
Llama may be slipping away from direct competition with the proprietary models, at least for now. But other analysis suggests that the field is diversifying and that Llama's role in it is solidifying.
Benchmarks are not what drives model choice a lot of the time.
"Everybody's just testing it on their own use cases," Shiran said. "It's the customer's data, and it's also going to keep changing."
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