The Llama Herd of Models: System 1, 2, 3 Go!
Laurens Van der Maaten
2025 Keynote
Abstract
Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems are powered by foundation models. These models enable AI systems to understand and produce language, to perceive and generate visual content, to recognize and produce speech, and to perform actions in digital environments. While foundation models initially resembled System 1 (thinking fast), they are starting to implement a type of System 2 (thinking slow) that enables them to reason through complex problems before producing an answer. In this talk, I will describe the development of the Llama family of foundational models. I will also argue that the next frontier in the development of foundation models is to equip them with a “System 3” that enables models to think together.
Speaker
Laurens Van der Maaten
Laurens van der Maaten is a Distinguished Research Scientist at Meta AI. He made contributions to many different aspects of AI, including representation learning, web-scale training of visual recognition systems, and privacy and security in machine learning. His work has received best paper awards at CVPR and UAI. Laurens co-led the development of Llama 3 and led the development of the Llama 4 Reasoning model.
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