Meta on Tuesday introduced that it’ll host its first-ever dev convention devoted to generative AI.
Referred to as LlamaCon after Meta’s Llama household of generative AI fashions, the convention is scheduled to happen on April 29. Meta mentioned that, there, it’ll share “the newest on [its] open supply AI developments to assist builders […] construct superb apps and merchandise.”
Further particulars will likely be made accessible quickly, mentioned Meta. The corporate’s annual developer convention, Meta Join, will likely be held later within the 12 months, in September — its typical window.
Meta, which a number of years in the past embraced an “open” method to growing AI applied sciences in a bid to foster an ecosystem of apps and platforms, was reportedly caught flat-footed by the rise of Chinese language AI firm DeepSeek, which managed to launch “open” AI to rival Meta’s personal.
Reportedly, Meta believes that one among DeepSeek’s newer fashions might outperform the following model of Llama, which is about to be launched within the coming weeks. Meta is alleged to have scrambled conflict rooms to decipher how DeepSeek lowered the price of operating and deploying fashions to use these learnings to Llama growth.
Meta not too long ago mentioned that it could spend as a lot as $80 billion on tasks associated to AI this 12 months, together with AI hires and the development of recent AI knowledge facilities.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg beforehand introduced that the corporate plans to launch a number of Llama fashions over the following few months, together with “reasoning” fashions alongside the traces of OpenAI’s o3-mini and fashions with natively multimodal capabilities.
Meta, which claims that its Llama fashions have racked up a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of downloads, is within the midst of a lawsuit that accuses the corporate of coaching its fashions on copyrighted ebook supplies with out permission. In one other problem to Meta’s Llama ambitions, a number of EU nations have pressured the corporate to postpone — and in some circumstances cancel altogether — its mannequin launch plans over knowledge privateness considerations.
