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Roll up, roll up! Meta’s got a brand-new bag of AI tricks — and they dropped it on a Saturday, because why not shake things up? Say hello to the Llama 4 squad: Scout, Maverick, and the beastly Behemoth. These aren’t your average models — they’re supercharged with visual smarts, trained on mountains of text, images, and videos to understand the world in high-def.
But wait — what’s the rush? Rumor has it Meta saw Chinese lab DeepSeek’s models zipping past the competition and hit the panic button, launching into full-on “AI arms race” mode. Think war rooms, code red, all-hands-on-deck.
Back to our Llamas! Scout and Maverick are already trotting free across platforms like Llama.com and Hugging Face, ready for action. Behemoth? Still in training, probably doing AI pushups somewhere.
The big news? Llama 4 is Meta’s first dabble into “Mixture of Experts” architecture — which basically means each model splits its workload across a squad of specialist mini-models. Efficient, smart, and surprisingly chatty.
Maverick packs a mind-blowing 400 billion parameters (only 17 billion active at a time) and is a champ at creative writing, chatting, and coding. Meta says it even outsmarts GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 on some fronts — though it’s still chasing top-tier titans like GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7.
Scout, on the other hoof, is the nerd of the bunch. It’s a wizard with documents, codebases, and loooong-form content — we’re talking up to 10 million tokens of context! That’s like reading a novel, a textbook, and your group chat history all at once.
And don’t worry devs, Scout is lean — it can run on a single Nvidia H100 GPU. Maverick’s a bit beefier. Behemoth? Well… it’s gonna need a machine that looks like it belongs on a space station.
Heads up though — Llama 4’s license has some strings attached. If you’re in the EU, you’re currently benched. And big companies (700M+ users) need special permission from Meta. Classic corporate gatekeeping, right?
Oh, and in a plot twist worthy of a tech drama, Meta’s made Llama 4 less shy — these models are now more willing to wade into the spicy waters of political and social debate. No more stonewalling on “controversial” topics.
Why? Well, there’s been pressure from critics — especially in U.S. political circles — claiming AI has been leaning a little too “woke.” Meta says it’s aiming for a balanced, neutral assistant that answers more, judges less, and listens to all sides.
And finally, a tease: Behemoth is on the way, flexing nearly 2 trillion parameters and promising to crush it on STEM tasks. Watch out, GPT-4.5 — the Llamas are stampeding your way.
