There are four new models in total: Llama 4 Scout, Llama 4 Maverick, and Llama 4 Behemoth. All were trained on 'large amounts of unlabeled text, image, and video data' to give them 'broad visual understanding,' Meta says. The success of open models from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which perform on par or better than Meta's previous flagship Llama models, reportedly kicked Llama development into overdrive. Meta is said to have scrambled war rooms to decipher how DeepSeek lowered the cost of running and deploying models like R1 and V3. Scout and Maverick are openly available on Llama.com and from Meta's partners, including the AI dev platform Hugging Face, while Behemoth is still in training. Meta says that Meta AI, its AI-powered assistant across apps including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, has been updated to use Llama 4 in 40 countries. Multimodal features are limited to the U.S. in English for now. Users and companies 'domiciled' or with a 'principal place of business' in the...
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