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Carl Franzen@AI News | VentureBeat
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Meta has unveiled its latest advancements in AI with the Llama 4 family of models, consisting of Llama 4 Scout, Maverick, and the upcoming Behemoth. These models are designed for a variety of AI tasks, ranging from general chat to document summarization and advanced reasoning. Llama 4 Maverick, with 17 billion active parameters, is positioned as a general-purpose model ideal for image and text understanding tasks, making it suitable for chat applications and AI assistants. Llama 4 Scout is designed for document summarization.
Meta is emphasizing efficiency and accessibility with Llama 4. Both the Maverick and Scout models are designed to run efficiently, even on a single NVIDIA H100 GPU, showcasing Meta’s dedication to balancing high performance with reasonable resource consumption. TheSequence #530 highlights that Llama 4 brings unquestionable technical innovations. Furthermore, the Llama 4 series introduces three distinct models—Scout, Maverick, and Behemoth—designed for a range of use cases, from general-purpose reasoning to long-context and multimodal applications.
The release of Llama 4 includes enhancements beyond its technical capabilities. In the UK, Ray-Ban Meta glasses are receiving an upgrade to integrate Meta AI features, enabling users to interact with their surroundings through questions and receive intelligent, context-aware responses. Soon to follow is the rollout of live translation on these glasses, facilitating real-time speech translation between English, Spanish, Italian, and French, further enhancing the user experience and accessibility.
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- bsky.app: Meta just dropped Llama 4 on a weekend! Two new open weight models (Scout and Maverick) and a preview of a model called Behemoth - Scout has a 10 million token context Best information right now appears to be this blog post:
- AI News | VentureBeat: While DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI o1 edge out Behemoth on a couple metrics, Llama 4 Behemoth remains highly competitive.
- Maginative: Meta has released Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, two open-weight AI models designed for multimodal reasoning, with Maverick outperforming GPT-4o and Scout offering a record-breaking 10M token context window.
- Groq: Meta’s Llama 4 Scout and Maverick models are live today on GroqCloud™, giving developers and enterprises day-zero access to the most advanced open-source AI models available. Today, Meta released the first models in the Llama 4 herd, which will enable people to build more personalized multimodal experiences. With Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick […]
- SLVIKI.ORG: Meta Unleashes Llama 4: The Future of Open-Source AI Just Got Smarter
- Analytics Vidhya: Llama 4 Models: Meta AI is Open Sourcing the Best!
- MarkTechPost: Meta AI Just Released Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick: The First Set of Llama 4 Models
- Ken Yeung: Meta Launches Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, Open-Weight Multimodal Models That Outperform GPT-4 and Gemini
- Analytics India Magazine: Meta Releases First Two Multimodal Llama 4 Models, Plans Two Trillion Parameter Model
- NVIDIA Technical Blog: developer.nvidia.com
- Resemble AI: Meta’s LLaMA 4 is the latest generation of large language models (LLMs) from Meta AI, unveiled on April 5, 2025. It represents a significant leap in Meta’s AI capabilities and open-source AI strategy.
- Databricks: Introducing Meta's Llama 4 on the Databricks platform.
- The Cloudflare Blog: Meta’s Llama 4 is now available on Workers AI: use this multimodal, Mixture of Experts AI model on Cloudflare's serverless AI platform to build next-gen AI applications.
- Harald Klinke: Meta has unveiled Llama 4, its latest AI model, featuring advanced multimodal capabilities that integrate text, video, images, and audio processing.
- Simon Willison: Meta just dropped Llama 4 on a weekend! Two new open weight models (Scout and Maverick) and a preview of a model called Behemoth - Scout has a 10 million token context Best information right now appears to be this blog post:
- www.analyticsvidhya.com: Analytics Vidhya reports how to access Meta's Llama 4 models via API.
- bsky.app: Meta just dropped Llama 4 on a weekend! Two new open weight models (Scout and Maverick) and a preview of a model called Behemoth - Scout has a 10 million token context Best information right now appears to be this blog post: https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/
- twitter.com: Meta AI has released Llama 4 Scout & Llama 4 Maverick, and is previewing Llama 4 Behemoth. Llama 4 Scout is highest performing small model with 17B activated parameters with 16 experts. It’s crazy fast, natively multimodal, and very smart. It achieves an industry leading 10M+ token context window and can also run on a single GPU ! Llama 4 Maverick is the best multimodal model in its class, beating GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash across a broad range of widely reported benchmarks, while achieving comparable results to the new DeepSeek v3 on reasoning and coding – at less than half the active parameters. It offers a best-in-class performance to cost ratio with an experimental chat version scoring ELO of 1417 on LMArena. It can also run on a single host ! Previewing Llama 4 Behemoth , our most powerful model yet and among the world’s smartest LLMs. Llama 4 Behemoth outperforms GPT4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.0 Pro on several STEM benchmarks. Llama 4 Behemoth is still training, and we’re excited to share more details about it even while it’s still in flight. — , VP and Head of GenAI at Meta
- Analytics Vidhya: How to Access Meta’s Llama 4 Models via API
- bdtechtalks.com: What to know about Meta’s Llama 4 model family
- slviki.org: Meta just dropped a major update in the AI arms race—and it’s not subtle.
- the-decoder.com: Meta has released the first two models in its Llama 4 series, marking the company’s initial deployment of a multimodal architecture built from the ground up.
- TheSequence: A major release for open source generative AI.
- www.resemble.ai: Meta’s LLaMA 4 is the latest generation of large language models (LLMs) from Meta AI, unveiled on April 5, 2025.
- TestingCatalog: Llama 4 brings 10M token context and MoE architecture with 3 new models
- bdtechtalks.com: Meta releases Llama 4, a potent suite of LLMs challenging rivals with innovative multimodal capabilities.
- The Verge: Meta has released Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, which outperform counterparts from OpenAI and Google in various benchmarks.
- Harald Klinke: Meta has unveiled two new AI models, Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, now integrated into WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram Direct.
- THE DECODER: Meta releases first multimodal Llama-4 models, leaves EU out in the cold
- simonwillison.net: Discussion of Llama 4's technical capabilities and potential impact.
- SLVIKI.ORG: Meta Unleashes Llama 4: A Leap Forward in Multimodal AI
- slviki.org: Meta Platforms has officially unveiled its Llama 4 family of artificial intelligence models, pushing the boundaries of what generative AI systems can do.
- www.tomsguide.com: Meta just launched Llama 4 — here's why ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude should be worried
- www.techradar.com: Meta launches new Llama 4 AI for all your apps, but it still feels limited compared to what ChatGPT and Gemini can do
- www.ghacks.net: Meta launches Llama 4 with three new AI models: Scout, Maverick, and Behemoth. These new iterations could give Meta a […] Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. The post appeared first on .
- www.infoq.com: Meta has officially released the first models in its new Llama 4 family—Scout and Maverick—marking a step forward in its open-weight large language model ecosystem.
- felloai.com: Llama 4 Just Arrived — an Open-Source AI Model from Meta That Beats GPT-4.5
- Fello AI: The new Llama 4 models, Scout and Maverick, represent a significant leap forward in the capabilities of generative AI systems. The models' multimodal nature enables them to process and generate content across various formats, including text, images, video, and audio.
- oodaloop.com: Meta on Saturday released the first models from its latest open-source artificial intelligence software Llama 4, as the company scrambles to lead the race to invest in generative AI.
- www.itnews.com.au: Named the Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick.
- Shelly Palmer: Meta announced Llama 4, the latest iteration of its large language model series.
- Gradient Flow: Llama 4: What You Need to Know
- The Algorithmic Bridge: Details about AI progress and Meta's Llama 4 model.
- www.artificialintelligence-news.com: Meta has unveiled Llama 4, its latest AI model, featuring advanced multimodal capabilities that integrate text, video, images, and audio processing.
- the-decoder.com: Initial evaluations show promising results in standard tests but reveal difficulties with handling extensive context. The introduction of a mixture of experts architecture is a significant advance in Meta's AI models.
- gHacks Technology News: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, open-source models, are now available across various platforms.
- Last Week in AI: Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models, Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser
- www.aiwire.net: Meta Unleashes New Llama 4 AI Models
- analyticsindiamag.com: Llama 4 models, including Scout and Maverick, are now live on its platform, allowing developers to build and deploy AI applications at competitive pricing. The post appeared first on .
- Simon Willison's Weblog: The Llama series have been re-designed to use state of the art mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture and natively trained with multimodality. We’re dropping Llama 4 Scout & Llama 4 Maverick, and previewing Llama 4 Behemoth. 📌 Llama 4 Scout is highest performing small model with 17B activated parameters with 16 experts. It’s crazy fast, natively multimodal, and very smart. It achieves an industry leading 10M+ token context window and can also run on a single GPU ! 📌 Llama 4 Maverick is the best multimodal model in its class, beating GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash across a broad range of widely reported benchmarks, while achieving comparable results to the new DeepSeek v3 on reasoning and coding – at less than half the active parameters. It offers a best-in-class performance to cost ratio with an experimental chat version scoring ELO of 1417 on LMArena. It can also run on a single host ! 📌 Previewing Llama 4 Behemoth , our most powerful model yet and among the world’s smartest LLMs. Llama 4 Behemoth outperforms GPT4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.0 Pro on several STEM benchmarks. Llama 4 Behemoth is still training, and we’re excited to share more details about it even while it’s still in flight. — , VP and Head of GenAI at Meta Tags: , , , ,
- AIwire: Meta Unleashes New Llama 4 AI Models
- THE DECODER: Meta's Llama 4 models show promise on standard tests, but struggle with long-context tasks
- the-decoder.com: Meta’s Llama 4 models show promise on standard tests, but struggle with long-context tasks
- Last Week in AI: Llama 4, Nova Act, xAI buys X, PaperBench
- RunPod Blog: Llama-4 Scout and Maverick Are Here—How Do They Shape Up?
- techcrunch.com: Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models
- : New from 404 Media: Facebook has deliberately pushed its Llama 4 AI model to the right in an attempt to show "both sides." Obviously that is dangerous/stupid if the AI is talking about climate change, health etc which are scientific fact but clouded by politics
- 404 Media: Meta’s Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musk’s Grok.
- www.itpro.com: Meta executive denies hyping up Llama 4 benchmark scores – but what can users expect from the new models?
- Composio: Notes on Llama 4: The Hits, the Misses, and the Disasters
- composio.dev: The Llama 4 is here, and this time, the Llama family has three different models: Llama 4 Scout, Maverick, and Behemoth. While
- thezvi.wordpress.com: Llama Does Not Look Good 4 Anything
- AI News | VentureBeat: DeepCoder delivers top coding performance in efficient 14B open model
- TheSequence: The Sequence #530: A Tech Deep Dive Into Llama 4
- www.aiwire.net: Meta Unleashes New Llama 4 AI Models
- composio.dev: Llama 4 Maverick vs. Deepseek v3 0324
- Composio: Llama 4 Maverick vs. Deepseek v3 0324
- Analytics Vidhya: Building an AI Agent with Llama 4 and AutoGen
- AIwire: Meta Unleashes New Llama 4 AI Models
- www.analyticsvidhya.com: Building an AI Agent with Llama 4 and AutoGen
- Digital Information World: Meta’s AI Faces Legal Fire as Authors, Scholars Unite Over Copyright Clash
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