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Meta needs to win over AI developers at its first LlamaCon


Meta's first-ever LlamaCon event comes at a critical moment for the company's relationship with AI developers.

Llama 3 arguably made Meta a darling among AI developers, delivering cutting-edge performance with the freedom to host the models wherever they chose. Nathan Lambert, a researcher with Ai2, says the fact that Meta didn’t release a reasoning model with Llama 4 suggests the company may have rushed the launch. Lambert noted that rival open models are closer to the frontier than ever before, and that they now come in more shapes and sizes — greatly increasing the pressure on Meta.

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