Open models in production
Publicly reported deployments of open-weight language models, grouped by sector. Every story links to its source; summaries stay within what the source states.
Confidential-computing LLM service for regulated customers
Edgeless Systems · Privatemode AIBuilt an end-to-end encrypted LLM service for healthcare and banking clients whose data rules ruled out ordinary cloud AI. Chose Llama because it was open, multilingual and self-hostable, and ran a quantised INT4 build to balance quality against compute.
- Models
- Llama 3.1 70B → Llama 3.3 70B (AWQ INT4)
- Deployment
- Self-hosted in confidential-computing enclaves; INT4 quantised weights
- Japan / globalFinancial services
Firm-wide generative AI on open models
NomuraThe investment bank set out to make generative AI available across the firm and standardised on Llama models, citing faster innovation, transparency, bias guardrails and strong results on summarisation and code generation.
- Models
- Llama (Meta)
- Deployment
- Managed hosting on Amazon Bedrock
- United StatesFintech & payments
Customer support systems built on an open model
Block · Cash AppBlock integrated Llama into the support systems behind Cash App. Because the weights are open, the team can experiment and customise per use case while keeping customer data private.
- Models
- Llama (Meta)
- Deployment
- Customised open model inside Block's own systems
- BrazilHealthcare & hospitals
Automated hospital discharge summaries
Instituto de Inteligência Artificial na Saúde · NoHarmThe NoHarm Summary Discharge project drafts and improves patient discharge summaries to cut administrative load, reduce errors and give patients complete post-hospital instructions — one of the highest-value, highest-risk hospital use cases in the playbook.
- Models
- Llama (Meta)
- Deployment
- Built with Llama for clinical documentation
- United Arab EmiratesHealthcare & research
Bilingual Arabic–English biomedical assistant
MBZUAI · BiMediX2A bilingual expert system providing virtual medical advice and diagnostic support in English and Arabic, including medical-image queries and spoken interaction — an example of open models serving languages that closed APIs cover poorly.
- Models
- Llama (Meta), Seamless-M4T
- Deployment
- Research deployment on open weights with speech models
- US · EU · Japan · Korea · NATO-associatedGovernment & public sector
Open models for sovereign and national-security use
US, EU and allied governmentsMeta extended Llama access to US agencies and contractors and later to governments including France, Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea, noting that open weights can be downloaded and deployed in secure environments at various classification levels without sending data to third-party providers.
- Models
- Llama (Meta)
- Deployment
- Self-hosted in classified / sovereign environments
- France / 160 countriesLogistics & shipping
Internal assistant for 155,000+ employees
CMA CGM · MAIAThe shipping and logistics group deployed MAIA, an internal personal assistant powered by Mistral, to raise workforce productivity across operations in 160 countries.
- Models
- Mistral models
- Deployment
- Enterprise-wide assistant on Mistral models
- France / globalInsurance & banking
Secure AI for 140,000+ insurance staff and a global bank
AXA and BNP ParibasAXA gives 140,000+ employees secure text-generation and analysis capabilities on Mistral models, while BNP Paribas uses them across global markets, sales and customer support under strict compliance and security standards.
- Models
- Mistral models
- Deployment
- Enterprise deployments with compliance controls
- FranceHealthcare & pharma
Evidence-based medication recommendations for 300+ hospitals
Synapse MedicineSynapse Medicine's clinical-decision platform, serving more than 300 hospitals, runs evidence-based recommendations on Mistral models under HIPAA-aligned controls.
- Models
- Mistral models
- Deployment
- Clinical decision support platform
Learning outcomes and student support at national scale
India — Ministry of Skill Development and EntrepreneurshipThe ministry is building on Llama to improve learning outcomes and student support, one of several public-sector programmes that chose open weights for cost, customisation and data control.
- Models
- Llama (Meta)
- Deployment
- Government programme on open weights