Meta energizes developers at inaugural LlamaCon with new AI API

April 29, 2025, 1:20 pm

At its first-ever LlamaCon, Meta unveiled its Llama API along with other AI innovations to win over developers. The company flexed its AI muscle with bold new tools aimed at stirring up enthusiasm in the tech community—even as skeptics wonder if this pitch will convert hardcore rivals.

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techcrunch.com / Meta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAI

On Tuesday, Meta held its first-ever AI developer conference, LlamaCon, at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. The company announced the launch of a consumer-facing Meta AI chatbot app, which will compete with ChatGPT, as well as a developer-facing API for accessing Llama models in the cloud....

reuters.com/business / Meta introduces Llama application programming interface to attract AI developers - Reuters

Meta introduces Llama application programming interface to attract AI developers Reuters

cnet.com / Meta's First LlamaCon Shows the Tech Giant's Still Playing Catch-Up

The company's first AI developers conference on Tuesday fell flat, with very few new announcements and products, including a standalone AI app that technically already existed.

venturebeat.com / Meta unleashes Llama API running 18x faster than OpenAI: Cerebras partnership delivers 2,600 tokens per second

Meta partners with Cerebras to launch its new Llama API, offering developers AI inference speeds up to 18 times faster than traditional GPU solutions, challenging OpenAI and Google in the fast-growing AI services market.

winbuzzer.com / Meta Broadens Llama 4 Access via Amazon Bedrock

Users can now build with Meta's Llama 4 Scout and Maverick models, known for image understanding and large context, via Amazon Bedrock's managed platform. The post Meta Broadens Llama 4 Access via Amazon Bedrock appeared first on WinBuzzer.

winbuzzer.com / Meta Previews Llama API, Offering Developers Direct Access to AI Models

Meta has entered the AI platform race with its Llama API preview, providing fine-tuning tools for Llama 3.3B and partner-served access to Llama 4. The post Meta Previews Llama API, Offering Developers Direct Access to AI Models appeared first on WinBuzzer.

techcrunch.com / Meta previews an API for its Llama AI models

At its inaugural LlamaCon AI developer conference on Tuesday, Meta announced an API for its Llama series of AI models: the Llama API. Available in limited preview, the Llama API lets developers explore and experiment with products powered by different Llama models, per Meta. Paired with Meta’s...

techcrunch.com / Meta needs to win over AI developers at its first LlamaCon

On Tuesday, Meta is hosting its first-ever LlamaCon AI developer conference at its Menlo Park headquarters, where the company will try to pitch developers on building applications with its open Llama AI models. Just a year ago, that wasn’t a hard sell. However, in recent months, Meta has...

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