Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference

Meta on Tuesday Declaration It will host the first Dev conference dedicated to the generator AI.

Llamacon was told after the Meta Lama family of the generator AI models that the conference will be held on April 23. Meta says that it is “the latest part planned to share [its] Open Source AI Develops to help developers […] Create amazing applications and products. “

The additional details will be available soon, Meta says. The company’s annual developer conference, meta connect, will be held in September after year – its general window.

Meta adopted an “open” approach to developing AI technologies to encourage the ecosystem of applications and platforms several years ago. How many applications or services were created above it was not revealed, but it was mentioned earlier that the Goldman Shutch, Numura Holdings, AT&T, Dordash and Accentor Use Llama. Organization Claim The model has a few million downloads and at least 25 partners hosting Lama with Nvidia, Databricks, Grock, Dell and Snowflake, some of which have created some additional tools, for example, enable them to delay less than ownership ownership data and references. The

However, it was reported that Meta was caught on flat legs because of the rise of the Chinese AI company DipscWhich was able to publish “Open” AI to make Meta’s own competition.

ReportMeta believes that a new model of DIPSC may surpass the next version of Lama, which will be published in the next week. It is reported that DPSIC models have reduced the cost of operating and deploying the warships to set up wars rooms, so that it can apply these teachings to Llama’s own development.

Meta recently stated that it would be As spent $ 80 billion This year on AI related projects, including AI rentals and construction of new AI Data Center.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Prior announcement The company that has planned to launch several Lama models over the next few months with the “logic” model along the OpenAI line O3-mini And models with multimodal powers locally. He also indicates the “agent” capacity, the future Lama models suggest that they will be able to take some steps autonomously.

“I think it might be a very good year when the Lama and Open Source became the most advanced and widely used AI model,” Zuckerberg said in January while calling Mater Q4 2024 to earn. “[O]Your goal [Llama this year] Have to lead. “

Metao is in the middle of it Case It accuses the company training its models on copyrighted book materials without permission. In another challenge for the Meta Lama aspiration, Several EU countries Forced the company to suspend – and in some cases completely cancel – its model plans to be more than anxiety in data privacy.

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