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Meta on Tuesdayannouncedthat it ’ll host its first - ever dev conference dedicated to productive AI .
holler LlamaCon after Meta ’s Llama kinfolk of generative AI model , the conference is schedule to take place on April 29 . Meta said that it plans to share “ the latest on [ its ] open source AI developments to help developer [ … ] build amazing apps and products . ”
Additional detail will be made available soon , say Meta . The company ’s annual developer conference , Meta Connect , will be deem later in the twelvemonth , in September — its typical window .
Meta several years ago bosom an “ assailable ” attack to developing AI applied science in a command to further an ecosystem of apps and weapons platform . It has n’t been disclosed how many apps or services have been built on top of it , but it ’s antecedently noted that Goldman Sachs , Nomura Holdings , AT&T , DoorDash , and Accenture utilise Llama . The companyclaimsto have hundreds of millions of downloads of the model , and at least 25 pardner hosting Llama , including Nvidia , Databricks , Groq , Dell , and Snowflake , some of which have build additional tools that , for example , rent the example cite proprietary data and enable them to melt at lower latencies .
But Meta was reportedly enchant directly - footed by the rising of Chinese AI companyDeepSeek , which manage to release “ open ” AI to rival Meta ’s own .
Reportedly , Meta believes that one of DeepSeek ’s new example could outperform the next version of Llama , which is jell to be let go in the make out weeks . Meta is said to have scramble to fix up warfare elbow room to decode how DeepSeek lowered the price of feed and deploying theoretical account , so that it could apply those encyclopedism to Llama ’s own development .
Meta of late tell that it wouldspend as much as $ 80 billionon projects relate to AI this twelvemonth , including AI hire and the construction of novel AI data center .
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerbergpreviously announcedthat the ship’s company plans to establish several Llama models over the next few months , including “ reasoning ” models along the cable of OpenAI’so3 - miniand model with natively multimodal capabilities . He has also hint at “ agentic ” capabilities , suggesting that future Llama models will be able to take certain actions autonomously .
“ I imagine this very well could be the year when Llama and open reservoir become the most advanced and wide used AI models , ” Zuckerberg said during Meta ’s Q4 2024 salary call in January . “ [ O]ur goal for [ Llama this yr ] is to head . ”
Meta is also in the thick of alawsuitthat accuses the company of train its models on copyrighted Word of God materials without permission . In another challenge to Meta ’s Llama ambition , several EU countrieshave drive the company to prorogue — and in some slip delete altogether — its model launching plans over data privateness concerns .
