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Meta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAI


Meta's LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAI.

Both releases aim to expand adoption of the company’s open Llama AI models, but that goal may be secondary to Meta’s true motive: beating OpenAI. It eliminates the need to rely on third-party cloud providers to run Llama models, and allows Meta to offer a fuller array of tools for AI developers. Court filings in a case against Meta reveal that the company’s execs previously obsessed over beating OpenAI’s GPT-4, which was once a state-of-the-art model.

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