By cryptoadmin 
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 streaming on-line, and also you'll be capable of watch alongside reside on the Meta for Builders Fb web page.
LlamaCon kicks off immediately at 1PM ET / 10AM PT with a keynote tackle 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 most recent on the Llama assortment of fashions and instruments" and supply a glimpse at yet-to-be launched AI options.
The keynote tackle can be adopted by a dialog at 1:45PM PT / 10:45PM ET between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi on "constructing AI-powered functions," adopted by a chat at 7PM ET / 4PM PT about "the most recent developments in AI" between Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. It doesn't appear to be both dialog can 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's not clear what new fashions or merchandise the corporate might have saved for LlamaCon.
We'll be liveblogging the keynote presentation immediately, together with a number of the subsequent interviews and classes between Zuckerberg and his company. Keep tuned and refresh this text at about 10AM ET immediately, once we'll kick off the reside updates.
Replace, April 29 2025, 6:00AM ET: This story was up to date to incorporate the small print of Engadget's liveblog, and proper a number of typos in timezones.
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