Published on: April 7, 2025 / update from: April 7, 2025 - Author: Konrad Wolfenstein
Meta Llamacon 2025: First developer conference for AI and the new LLAMA 4 generation-creative image: Xpert.digital
Llamacon: Meta's answer to the booming open source AI competition
Llamacon 2025: Metas big stage for the future of the AI
Meta organizes his first AI developer conference called Llamacon on April 29, 2025, in which the company will give further insights into its latest AI models and future product plans. The focus is particularly on the recently announced LLAMA 4 family, whose first multimodal models Scout and Maverick have already been published. The highlight is expected that META will present further details of the flagship model Llama 4 Behemoth, which is still under development. The event takes place against the background of an increasingly intensive competition in the AI sector, whereby Meta wants to strengthen its position as the leading provider of open source AI models.
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The first Llamacon conference: a new format for METAS AI ambitions
Meta has announced the Llamacon as a dedicated developer conference for its AI technologies, which will take place on April 29, 2025. In contrast to earlier years, in which AI developments were presented at other events such as the META Connect, Metas Ki division now receives its own event. The Llamacon is placed clearly in front of the annual Meta Connect, which is scheduled for September 17 and 18, 2025.
The name of the conference is derived from Metas AI language models known as Llama (Large Language Model Meta Ai). The focus of the event is clearly on the promotion of the developer ecosystem around METAS open source AI models.
As Meta explained in his announcement: "After the unprecedented growth and dynamics of our open source LLAMA collection of models and tools, we look forward to introducing Llamacon-a developer conference for 2025 that will take place on April 29."
Goals and format of the conference
The Llamacon is intended to help developers integrate the different variants of the LLAMA language models into their own applications. Meta plans to present the latest developments in the field of open source AI at the conference and offer special events and meet-ups to support developers in using their AI models.
Although specific details about the program and the speakers have not yet been announced, Meta has promised to inform more details about the event in the coming weeks. However, the conference will be expected to offer deeper insights into Metas AI strategy and in particular into the latest generation of the LLAMA models.
The new LLAMA 4 generation: multimodal AI models
Shortly before the Llamacon, Meta presented the first two models of its new LLAMA 4 family on April 6, 2025: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. These models represent significant progress compared to earlier generations and are designed from scratch to multimodal, i.e. can process both text and images.
Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Maverick is described by Meta as the “work horse” of the family and is optimized for general assistance tasks, image and word processing as well as chat applications. The model has 17 billion active parameters and uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 128 experts. According to Meta, Maverick even exceeds GPT-4O in certain multimodal tests and can process up to 1 million tokens (around 1,500 text sites) in a single interaction.
Llama 4 Scout
The second model presented, Llama 4 Scout, focuses on more specific tasks such as the analysis of extensive documents or code bases. With 17 billion active parameters, but only 16 experts, Scout is particularly characterized by its extremely large context window, which can include up to 10 million tokens (around 15,000 text sites). Meta emphasizes the efficiency of the model that runs on a single GPU.
Both models are already available for developers via the LLAMA website and the Hugging Face platform and have also been integrated into META AI, which means that they are available in WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram.
Upcoming developments: Llama 4 Behemoth
A highlight of the upcoming Llamacon could be the presentation of further details about Llama 4 Behemoth, a model of the LLAMA 4 family, which is still being developed. With huge 288 billion active parameters (a total of 2 trillion parameters), Behemoth is to become the most powerful basic model of META.
Meta states that Behemoth serves as a “teacher model” for Scout and Maverick and exceeds established models such as GPT-4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7 and Gemini 2.0 Pro in mathematical and scientific benchmarks. However, Meta has so far shy away the direct comparison with Google's latest Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Further details on Behemoth will most likely be presented on the Llamacon on April 29.
Competition situation in the AI market
The publication of the LLAMA 4 models and the upcoming Llamacon take place in an increasingly competitive AI market. Meta is under pressure to assert its position as the leading provider of open source AI models, especially after the sensitive start of the Chinese model Deepseek R1 in early 2025.
The success of Deepseek, which achieves high performance at significantly lower costs, has reported to be under pressure. Techcrunch reports that Meta is trying to understand how Deepseek could develop technologies that can keep up with their own, while significantly less was spent on development.
Meta positions its LLAMA-4 models as strong competition with established proprietary models such as Openais GPT-4O and Google's Gemini series. The company particularly emphasizes the cost efficiency of its models compared to those of the competition.
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Importance of the open source strategy
A central aspect of METAS AI strategy is the obligation to develop open source. The company always emphasizes that it is working on open source AI, which was also emphasized in the announcement of the Llamacon.
According to META, the LLAMA language model is already provided by over 20 partners and uses, among other things, technologies from Nvidia, DataBricks, Groq and Dell. The company also works with large organizations such as accenture, AT&T, Doordash, Goldman Sachs and Nomura Holdings to support them in the integration of LLAMA models in their own applications.
Conclusion and outlook on the Llamacon
The upcoming Llamacon on April 29, 2025 marks an important milestone in Metas AI strategy. With the introduction of a dedicated conference for its AI technologies, the company underlines the growing importance of AI for its business and long-term plans.
The recently presented LLAMA 4 models Scout and Maverick show that Meta is determined to keep up with other AI giants such as Openaai and Google and to strengthen their position as the leading provider of open source AI models. The multimodal skills and the efficiency of the new models represent significant progress.
Further details about Metas AI strategy and in particular on the upcoming flagship model Behemoth are expected on the Llamacon. The conference will offer important insights into the future of METAS AI development and its plans to further support the developer ecosystem.
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