Meta needs to win over AI developers at its first LlamaCon

On Tuesday, Meta is hosting its first-ever LlamaCon AI developer conference at its Menlo Park headquarters, where the company will try to pitch developers on building applications with its open Llama AI models. Just a year ago, that wasn’t a hard sell.However, in recent months, Meta has struggled to keep up with both “open” AI labs like DeepSeek and closed commercial competitors such as OpenAI in the rapidly evolving AI race. LlamaCon comes at a critical moment for Meta in its quest to build a sprawling Lla ...