Meta just announced its first-ever LlamaCon, a dev conference dedicated to generative AI. Its scheduled for April 29. Why the llama-based naming convention? The company titled the event after its family of generative AI models.Meta promises to share the latest on our open source AI developments to help developers do what they do best: build amazing apps and products. Beyond that vague description, we dont know much. Theres no information regarding speakers or potential products being shown. We know that the companys working on Llama 4, with an early 2025 release window, so well most likely get a sizzle reel of some kind.The company notes itll have more to share about LlamaCon in the coming weeks. Meta also says that 2025 is shaping up to be another banger of a year. To that end, it has scheduled the next major Connect event for September 17. It promises plenty of reveals that should please virtual and mixed reality developers, content creators, metaverse mavens and AI glasses enthusiasts. Meta Connect 2024 gave us the Quest 3S and the fancy-pants Orion prototype AR glasses.According to TechCrunch, Meta has been scrambling to figure out how AI rival DeepSeek has managed to create tech that rivals its own at a fraction of the development cost. The report suggests that DeepSeeks upcoming models could outperform the aforementioned Llama 4. The companys also currently embroiled in a lawsuit that accuses it of training Llama models on copyrighted book materials without permission.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-just-scheduled-a-generative-ai-conference-called-llamacon-for-april-29-181351134.html?src=rss