Meta, in partnership with Data Science Africa, today announced the winners of the Llama Impact Grant for Startups and Researchers at the UN General Assembly’s Unstoppable Africa 2025 event. Launched in March 2025, the 8-month program is designed to support early-stage startups leveraging open-source Llama models to address key national and regional challenges across four high-priority areas. These projects exemplify the spirit of innovation and impact that the ‘Llama Impact Grant for Startups and Researchers’ stands for. Llama models are already being applied in projects ranging from localising educational material to expanding access to medical information in low-resource communities. The Llama Impact Grant, launched in October 2023 as a global programme, seeks to source and scale innovative use cases of Llama that address critical challenges in education, health, agriculture, and digital inclusion.