After a pair years of getting its open-source Llama AI mannequin be simply part of its Join conferences, Meta is breaking issues out and internet hosting a wholly generative AI-focused developer convention referred to as LlamaCon on April 29. The occasion is solely digital, and you’ll watch alongside dwell on the Meta for Builders Fb web page.
LlamaCon kicks off at 1PM ET / 10AM PT with a keynote handle from Meta’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, Vice President of AI Manohar Paluri and analysis scientist Angela Fan. The keynote is meant to cowl developments within the firm’s open-source AI neighborhood, “the newest on the Llama assortment of fashions and instruments” and supply a glimpse at yet-to-be launched AI options.
The keynote handle will likely be adopted by a dialog at 1:45PM ET / 10:45PM ET between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi on “constructing AI-powered purposes,” adopted by a chat at 7PM ET / 4PM PT about “the newest traits in AI” between Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. It does not appear to be both dialog will likely be used to interrupt information, however Microsoft and Meta have collaborated earlier than, so something is feasible.
Meta hasn’t historically waited for a convention to launch updates to Meta AI or the Llama mannequin. The corporate launched its new Llama 4 household of fashions, which excel at picture understanding and doc parsing, on a Saturday in early April. It is not clear what new fashions or merchandise the corporate may have saved for LlamaCon.
LlamaCon will stream dwell on April twenty ninth by means of the Meta for Builders Fb web page and we’ll be live-blogging the occasion proper right here on Engadget so you may get all the small print as they occur.
