On Tuesday, Meta is internet hosting LlamaCon, its first-ever AI developer occasion. It’ll middle across the firm’s Llama household of open AI fashions, and we’re anticipating some huge updates for builders. Also on the agenda: keynotes from Meta executives and fireplace chats with Big Tech CEOs and Meta’s chief, Mark Zuckerberg.
Meta is internet hosting a small variety of builders and journalists at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. The firm can be livestreaming the massive keynotes and firesides for folks around the globe to tune in. LlamaCon will stream on the Meta for Developers Facebook Page, in addition to on the Meta Developers YouTube channel.
LlamaCon kicks off at 10:15 a.m. Pacific with a keynote speech delivered by Meta’s Chief Product Officer, Chris Cox, the corporate’s Vice President of AI, Manohar Paluri, and Meta Generative AI Research Scientist Angela Fan.
At 10:45 a.m., Zuckerberg will sit down for a fireplace chat with Databricks Co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi to speak about open supply AI and AI-powered purposes. What’s the connection between Meta and Databricks? In January, Databricks introduced that Meta was backing the data-focused AI startup as a “strategic advisor.“
Later within the day, at 4 p.m., Zuckerberg will take part in one other fireplace chat with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The two CEOs are slated to debate the newest tendencies in AI, and provide recommendation for a way builders can keep forward within the fast-moving AI house.
Stakes are excessive for Meta going into LlamaCon. The firm just lately launched Llama 4, a brand new era of AI fashions that was met with a muted response from builders. The Llama 4 fashions weren’t state-of-the-art on sure benchmarks in comparison with main AI fashions from DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Soon after the launch, Meta needed to fend off allegations that it cheated on a preferred crowdsourced AI benchmark, LM Arena. The firm used a model of its Llama 4 Maverick mannequin “optimized for conversationality” to realize a excessive rating on LM Arena, however launched a special model of Maverick publicly.
With LlamaCon, Meta is hoping to get again into the nice graces of builders. We’ll see if the corporate can obtain that.
