On Tuesday, Meta is hosting LlamaCon, its inaugural AI developer event, focusing on the company’s Llama family of open AI models and announcing significant updates for developers. The event will feature keynotes from Meta executives and discussions with prominent tech CEOs, including Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
Meta is accommodating a limited number of developers and journalists at its Menlo Park, California headquarters, while livestreaming keynotes and discussions to a global audience. The event will be available on the Meta for Developers Facebook Page and the Meta Developers YouTube channel.
LlamaCon begins at 10:15 a.m. Pacific Time with a keynote by Chris Cox, Meta’s Chief Product Officer, Manohar Paluri, the company’s Vice President of AI, and Angela Fan, a Generative AI Research Scientist at Meta.
At 10:45 a.m., Zuckerberg will engage in a conversation with Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO of Databricks, discussing open source AI and AI-powered applications. In January, Meta announced its role as a strategic advisor to Databricks, the AI-focused startup.
Later, at 4 p.m., Zuckerberg will have another discussion with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, covering the latest AI trends and offering insights on how developers can keep pace in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
LlamaCon presents a critical opportunity for Meta, coming in the wake of the recent launch of Llama 4, a new generation of AI models that received a lukewarm response from developers. The Llama 4 models were outperformed by AI models from DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google on certain benchmarks.
Following the launch, Meta faced accusations of manipulating scores on a popular AI benchmark, LM Arena, by using an “optimized for conversationality” version of its Llama 4 Maverick model to achieve a high score and subsequently releasing a different version publicly.
Through LlamaCon, Meta aims to rebuild trust and rapport with developers. The success of this endeavor remains to be seen.
