Meta has launched the primary two fashions from its multimodal Llama 4 suite: LLama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. Maverick is “the workhorse” of the 2 and excels at picture and textual content understanding for “normal assistant and chat use circumstances,” the corporate mentioned in a weblog submit, whereas the smaller mannequin Scout might deal with issues like “multi-document summarization, parsing intensive consumer exercise for personalised duties, and reasoning over huge codebases.” The corporate additionally launched Llama 4 Behemoth, an upcoming mannequin it says is “among the many world’s smartest LLMs” — and CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned we’ll be listening to a few fourth mannequin, LLama 4 Reasoning, “within the subsequent month.”
Each Maverick and Scout can be found to obtain now from the LLama web site and Hugging Face, they usually’ve been added to Meta AI, together with for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram DMs.
Scout has 17 billion energetic parameters with 16 consultants, Meta says. In line with Zuckerberg, “It’s extraordinarily quick, natively multimodal, and has an trade main, practically infinite 10 million token context size, and it’s designed to run on a single GPU.” Maverick then again has 17 billion energetic parameters with 128 consultants. The corporate says it beats rivals like GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 on coding, reasoning, multilingual, long-context and picture benchmarks, and stacks up towards DeepSeek v3.1 on reasoning and coding.
Zuckerberg is already calling the upcoming Behemoth mannequin, which remains to be coaching, “the very best performing base mannequin on the earth,” with 288 billion energetic parameters, in accordance with the corporate. It is probably not right here but, nevertheless it’s seemingly we’ll be listening to much more about that and the Reasoning mannequin quickly; Meta’s massive AI developer convention, LlamaCon, is only a few weeks away.
