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Meta's Inaugural LlamaCon: An AI Developer Event

Meta is scheduled to host its first dedicated AI developer conference, LlamaCon, this Tuesday. The event will primarily focus on the Llama family of open AI models, and significant announcements geared towards developers are anticipated.

Event Details and Key Speakers

The conference will be held at Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, with a limited attendance of developers and journalists. However, keynotes and fireside chats will be globally accessible via livestream.

Viewers can tune in to the event through the Meta for Developers Facebook Page and the Meta Developers YouTube channel.

LlamaCon Schedule Highlights

The event commences at 10:15 a.m. PT with a keynote presentation. Delivering the address will be Chris Cox, Meta’s Chief Product Officer, Manohar Paluri, Vice President of AI, and Angela Fan, a generative AI research scientist at Meta.

At 10:45 a.m. PT, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, will engage in a fireside chat with Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks. The discussion will center on open-source AI and applications powered by artificial intelligence.

Meta’s connection to Databricks stems from a January announcement where Databricks revealed Meta as a “strategic investor” in the data-focused AI startup.

Later in the day, at 4 p.m. PT, Zuckerberg will participate in a second fireside chat, this time with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. The two leaders will explore current AI trends and provide guidance for developers navigating the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

The Importance of LlamaCon for Meta

LlamaCon arrives at a crucial juncture for Meta. The recent release of Llama 4, the newest iteration of their AI models, received a comparatively subdued response from the developer community.

Performance benchmarks indicated that Llama 4 did not achieve state-of-the-art results in certain areas when compared to leading AI models developed by DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Following the launch, Meta faced accusations of manipulating results on the LM Arena, a widely used crowdsourced AI benchmark.

Specifically, the company utilized a version of its Llama 4 Maverick model, optimized for conversational ability, to attain a high score on LM Arena, but did not release this same version to the public.

Looking Ahead

Meta aims to regain developer confidence through LlamaCon. The success of the event will determine whether the company can achieve this objective.

It remains to be seen if the announcements and discussions at LlamaCon will resonate with the developer community and position Meta as a leader in the open AI space.