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. Contrast that with the reception to Meta's Llama 4 family, and the difference is stark. But Llama 4 was controversial from the start. Benchmarking shenanigans Meta optimized a version of one of its Llama 4 models, Llama 4 Maverick, for "conversationality," wh ...