Meta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAI

On Tuesday, Meta held the first artificial intelligence developer conference, Llamacon, at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The company has announced the launch of the Meta AI chatbot app, which faces the consumer, which will compete with ChatGPT, as well as an application programming interface facing the developer to access Llama models in the cloud.

Both versions aim to expand the adoption of Llama AI’s open models for the company, but this may be secondary for the real Meta motivation: overcoming Openai. AI’s Meta’s ambition, in broad strokes, feeds an open ecosystem of artificial intelligence with “closed” artificial intelligence providers such as Openai, whose models pass through services.

The Meta’s Ai Chatbot app is almost similar to Openai. It contains a social extract where users can share their artificial intelligence chats, and provides customs based on the user’s Meta application activity.

As for API Llama, it is difficult for API Openai. Llama API is designed to make it easier for developers to create applications that connect Llama forms in the cloud, using only one line of code. It eliminates the need to rely on third -party cloud service providers to run Llama models, and it allows Meta to provide a full set of tools for artificial intelligence developers.

Meta, like many artificial intelligence companies, is Openai to be a great competitor. The court files in a case against Meta reveal that the company’s executives were previously obsessed with its OPNAI’s GPT-4, which was once a newly model. The undermining of the artificial intelligence model, such as Openai, has long been the essence of the Meta strategy of artificial intelligence. In the July 2024 speech, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, sought to contradict companies such as Openai, and wrote that “selling access to artificial intelligence models is not [Meta’s] Employment model. “

Many artificial intelligence researchers who spoke with Techcrunch before Llamacon hope Meta will issue a competitive model of the melodic organization such as O3-MINI from Openai. The company did not end with that. But for Mita, it is not necessary to win the artificial intelligence race.

During a stage on the stage with the CEO of Databrics Ali GodCon during Llamacon, Zuckerberg said he sees any laboratory of artificial intelligence that provides his models openly available, including Dibsic and Albaba in Queen, as allies in the battle against closed model providers.

Zuckerberg said: “Part of the surrounding value of the open source is that you can mix and match. So if it is another model, such as Deepseek, the best – or if QWEN is better in something – then, as developers, you have the ability to take the best parts of intelligence from different models and produce exactly what you need.” “This is part of the way I think the open source is mainly in the quality of all the closed source [models] … [I]T feels as if it is a kind of powerless force. “

In addition to dwarfing Openai, Meta may also try to push its open models to satisfy organizational sculpture. The European Union Act of Amnesty International grants special privileges to companies that distribute “free and open” artificial intelligence systems. Meta often claims that Llama models have “open source”, although the dispute over whether it meets the necessary criteria.

Regardless of the reason, Meta appears to be content to start the AI ​​launch that enhances the ecosystem of the open model and reduces Openai-sometimes at the expense of failure to provide advanced models themselves.