LlamaCon 2025 live: Updates from Meta's first generative AI developer conference keynote
作者：ian carlos campbell · karissa bell · igor bonifacicUpdated Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 8:17 AM0
After a couple years of having its open-source Llama AI model be just a part of its Connect conferences, Meta is breaking things out and hosting an entirely generative AI-focused developer conference called LlamaCon on April 29. The event is streaming online, and you'll be able to watch along live on the Meta for Developers Facebook page.
LlamaCon kicks off today at 1:15 PM ET / 10:15 AM PT with a keynote address from Meta's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, Vice President of AI Manohar Paluri and research scientist Angela Fan. The keynote is supposed to cover developments in the company's open-source AI community, "the latest on the Llama collection of models and tools" and offer a glimpse at yet-to-be released AI features.
The keynote address will be followed by a conversation at 10:45AM PT / 1:45PM ET between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi on "building AI-powered applications," followed by a chat at 4PM PT / 7PM ET about "the latest trends in AI" between Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. It doesn't seem like either conversation will be used to break news, but Microsoft and Meta have collaborated before, so anything is possible.
Meta hasn't traditionally waited for a conference to launch updates to Meta AI or the Llama model. The company introduced its new Llama 4 family of models, which excel at image understanding and document parsing, on a Saturday in early April. It's not clear what new models or products the company could have saved for LlamaCon.
We'll be liveblogging the keynote presentation today, along with some of the subsequent interviews and sessions between Zuckerberg and his guests. Stay tuned and refresh this article at about 10AM ET today, when we'll kick off the live updates.
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That's it for our liveblog today everyone, thank you for reading. Thanks so much too, to Karissa and Igor for working so hard on such a long day, and Devindra (and everyone else on the team) for the help. We'll see you lovely folks again on another liveblog.
I have boarded the LlamaCon shuttle and am finally headed home. Thanks to everyone who joined us today!
As we wrap, we got so many Little Llama teases and yet no concrete news on the new model.
Sounds like we're wrapping up here. Zuckerberg asks Nadella what he's looking forward to and Satya has a very Satya answer: software's ability to solve problems.
"The world needs a new factor of production to meet new challenges," Nadella says of the promise AI, adding how it took 50 years for industries to adapt to the advent of electricity. "We're all investing [in AI] like it won't take 50 years," Zuck responds, laughing.
We're getting a bit philosophical now. Nadella is saying that lines between apps, websites and documents are starting to blur, thanks to AI. Zuck breezes over his point "interesting, makes sense."
As the conversation turns to agentic systems, Zuck says he doesn't know "off the top of his head" the amount of Meta's code is being written by AI. For context, late last year Google CEO Sundar Pichai said a quarter of the search giant's new code was AI generated.
Nadella deftly dodges the topic of Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI by looking back to the company's history and his own history with open source projects.
Zuckerberg mentions Microsoft's partnership with OPenAI but points out that the company has also tried to support open-source models. Nadella says both closed and open-source models are needed: "I'm not dogmatic about it," he says.
Wow, Zuck is laying it on thick. He referred to Microsoft as the "greatest technology company" and said Nadella has been a solid ally in the open-source space. Nadella jokes that Zuckerberg once lectured him about Bing not being social, which gets a big laugh from the audience.
Maybe the AI can't count?
In case anyone is wondering, 10 minutes ago they told us it would start in 10 minutes. But they just now gave us a 5 minute warning (and a countdown) so hopefully we're *actually* starting soon.
I honestly don't know what to expect. My first instinct is to say "no." On the other hand, this is an odd matchup to say the least. As I mentioned earlier, we typically think of Meta and Microsoft as competitors in the AI space, and I can't think of a time when we've seen Zuck and Satya share a stage before so it definitely feels like they want to signal... something. I'm just not sure what.
Honestly shocked there still appears to be a sizable audience in front of that stage. I'm chowing down on some Korean stew at home. Karissa — do we expect Zuckerberg and Nadella to say anything of note?
They seem to be changing the stage over for a fireside, so hopefully we will be starting soon.
No word on how late we're running, at the moment. (Karissa Bell for Engadget) If you are all still with us at this point, welcome back and thanks for joining us this late in the day! It's 7pm here in the New York area. Definitely a choice for Meta to host this session at 4pm where they are.
Well, the last developer session just wrapped up and they announced a “networking break,” so I guess we will be waiting at least a few more minutes for Zuckerberg and Nadella.
I’m back in the main keynote area, where the AC is apparently set to arctic. The prior session is still happening, so unclear if Zuckerberg’s fireside will be starting on time.
I've certainly never had an ice cream taco and I've attended many Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft events (not to mention the smaller tech companies too). So kudos, Meta? And no, I didn't mean to brag :)
Excellent idea, Cherlynn. These were definitely above average, I'd say. Also, my first time getting an ice cream taco at a tech event.
Update, April 29 2025, 12:45PM ET: This story was updated to reflect the new 1:15PM ET keynote start time.
Update, April 29 2025, 6:00AM ET: This story was updated to include the details of Engadget's liveblog, and correct a few typos in timezones.
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