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Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference on April 29
- piker 2y agoCan you imagine how many LinkedIn thought leaders are going to be in attendance? Perhaps the greatest gathering of minds since the Manhattan Project.
- brap 2y agoSuper thrilled about all the cross-functional synergies and ROI-optimized deliverables poised to disrupt the status quo and elevate the strategic framework.
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- gerdesj 2y ago"Super thrilled about all the cross-functional synergies ..." Could you explain what that means - please?
- gerdesj 2y ago... whoosh ...
- onemoresoop 2y agoIt’s just fluff
- esafak 2y agoCan't wait to delve into it!
- throw83288 2y agoSo excited to engage the core on our future exciting product developments as a team!
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- ultrasounder 2y agoThanks! This made my day. ROFL.
- ethbr1 2y agoLlamaCon: the greatest buzzword bingo convention opportunity in 2025 Double click with us.
- gerdesj 2y ago"At LlamaCon, we’ll share the latest on our open source AI developments to help developers do what they do best: build amazing apps and products, whether as a start-up or at scale." Strangely enough, I can work quite well without your help. I've been doing it professionally for 35 odd years. I'm "just" an engineer - no capital E - I simply studied Civil Engineering at college and ended up running an IT company and I'm quite good at IT. What I would really like to see is really well indexed documentation written by people ie an old school search engine. Google used to do that and so did Altavista, back in the day. I do not need or want a plethora of trite simulacra web sites dripping with AI wankery at every search term.
- stevage 2y agoYou really don't use Copilot or ChatGPT? Have you tried them?
- ndespres 2y agoI never have and I never will!
- Seattle3503 2y agoOkay
- Mtinie 2y ago> I never have and I never will! That’s an odd flex to roll with for someone who has long been a member of a community of technology enthusiasts, but you be you. LLMs are tools, not religions. They don’t need to be elevated to a dogmatic level.
- chefandy 2y agoProbably not going to be saying much though. The state of real-time LLM-based conversation aids just isn’t where it needs to be for those folks to function in public effectively. I could foresee there being a heck of a slam broetry event happening at an after party, though.
- xyst 2y ago> and 2025 is shaping up to be another banger > banger “Fellow kids” vibes from the dinosaurs at Facebook and Zuckerfuck.
- haliskerbas 2y agolet's not be afraid to bring masculinity to work up next: farting on the earnings call "here's what I think of your question Chadwick at Vanguard..." /s
- hx8 2y agoGreat! Maybe I can finally learn what I'm suppose to be using generative AI for to be more productive. I'll be tuning in and spinning up whatever models/tools they suggest, but the longer this tech wave occurs the more confident I am that gen-ai is going to tally up to be an at-most 3% lift on global productivity.
- onemoresoop 2y agoYeah, but finally everybody can now bulshit freely aided by their personal llm, not just the natural bulshitters; but I forsee that bullshitting may spike up a bit now then fall out of fashion for something even more fleeting as people’s attention span is getting more and more fractured.
- azinman2 2y agoHere’s something scary I recently learned: Cedar-Sinai in LA (major hospital) used to have 15 lawyers on contracts. Now they have 1 and an AI app reviewing contracts. Those are 14 lawyers gone. That’s more than 3% on “productivity”, but 14 people who lost their jobs. And that’s now with the current state of things.
- broken_clock 2y agoCan you share a source/article?
- linkregister 2y agoDo you have an article that has more information about this? I'd really like to learn more about what happened.
- NBJack 2y agoGoing to be interesting to see the MTTL (mean time to lawsuit) on this. Sounds grossly negligent. I feel kinda sorry for the lonely lawyer.
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- cyanydeez 2y agoBoycott.
- xl-brain 2y agoI wish they called it llamarama...
- didgeoridoo 2y agoThat way attendees could be called Llamarama Dingdongs.
- mohsen1 2y agohttps://github.com/containers/ramalama https://github.com/containers/ramalama
- jonathanhefner 2y agoI would bet at least one person at Meta wanted to call it Llamapalooza. In any case, I'm excited!
- hedayet 2y agoFacebook cheering AI and those dinosaurs cheering that "meteor shower" - same vibe!
- simonw 2y agoGiven how good Llama 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 were I'm genuinely looking forward to news on Llama 4. 3.3 70B is the best model I've managed to run on my laptop, and 3.2 3B is my favourite model to run on my phone.
- cdfuller 2y agoI'd love to hear more about how you're using models on a phone. Have you written anything about it?
- simonw 2y agoHonestly the one on my phone is more for fun than anything else - I use it to show people that LLMs can run on personal devices but rarely do anything useful with it. I use the MLC Chat app from the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mlc-chat/id6448482937 https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mlc-chat/id6448482937 My favourite example prompt for demos is "Write an outline of a Netflix Christmas movie where a topical-profession falls in love with another topical-profession" - customized for the occasion. e.g. "Write an outline for a Netflix Christmas movie set in San Gregorio California about a man who runs an unlicensed cemetery falling in love with a barrister at the general store" - result here: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3ldthrqb6c22q https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3ldthrqb6c22...
- tough 2y agofullmoon is a good FOSS iOS/macOS client for mlx https://fullmoon.app/ https://fullmoon.app/
- simonw 2y agoOh neat, that one has a feature that I am missing from MLC - it logs your conversations and lets you revisit them. Still a bit too hard to copy and paste transcript aback out again though!
- EGreg 2y agoFor a moment I thought it said "LlamaCoin" lol I wondered why so much support on HN all of a sudden.
- pohafan 2y agoIt's sad how we are letting Meta get away with their abuse of the term "open-source" for their open weights models. :-(
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoThe “con” being the claims of “open source” when Llama is at best “weights available”. It’s not even “open weights” since it has a proprietary license. But I’m sure that won’t stop Yann LeCun from repeating lies about how Meta is the leader in open source AI.
- tlyleung 2y agoDates are awfully close to ICLR, but I suppose the audiences don’t really overlap.
- rvz 2y ago3 years ago, Meta Connect in 2022 was a different atmosphere. [0] Almost no-one cared. That was close to the bottom of Meta's stock price. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33087535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33087535
- jasdi 2y agoSince then the avg ad price, they have reported has risen for 12 quarters in a row, past 6 quarters its jumped 15-30%. The MO is to prey on small businesses and people who want attention, world wide, who don't know anything about advertising/marketing. Everything they know comes from what Google and Meta tell them.
- jheimark 2y agoOdd timing - right in the middle of RSA in SF. Llama (and other US-trained open weight models) are key to national security and cybersecurity, and there's a built in audience 30 minutes away if this were two days later or two days earlier...
- chefandy 2y agoMaybe they should have used one of those newfangled AI automatic calendar manager things. Or maybe they were using one and shouldn’t have been.
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- chefandy 2y agoIronically, that was a pretty Reddit-like thing to say.
- pentagrama 2y agoIt would be beneficial to have a hardware-optimized Llama lineup with a clearer naming scheme and distinct performance tiers, for example: - Llama 4.0 Phone (Lite / Standard / Max) – For mobile devices. - Llama 4.0 Workstation (Lite / Standard / Max) – For PCs and laptops. - Llama 4.0 Server (Lite / Standard / Max) – For high-performance computing. This approach would enable developers to select the appropriate model based on both device type and performance needs. What do you think? For example now I feel like 3.3 70B is more for laptops/PCs, and the previous 3.2 3B for phones, is a bit confusing to me.