The American social media titan - which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp - has announced two new versions of its large language model (LLM) Llama - Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick.
These tools power the Meta AI assistant in WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram Direct.
Llama 4 Scout is "more powerful than all previous generation Llama models" and it is capable of "fitting in a single Nvidia H100 GPU".
Also, it has an "industry-leading context window" of 10 million, and is capable of delivering "better results" than Google's AI models - Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, as well as the open-source AI tool Mistral 3.1 "across a broad range of widely reported benchmarks".
Meta claims Llama 4 Maverick " is the best multimodal model in its class".
The firm also stated it beats OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Gemini Flash 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 is also reported that Llama 4 Maverick "offers a best-in-class performance to cost ratio with an experimental chat version scoring ELO of 1417 on LMArena".
However, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said its "most powerful" AI model, Llama 4 Behemoth - which is "among the world’s smartest LLMs" - "is still training".
Meta said in a blog post: "While it’s important that models are intelligent, people also want models that can reply in a personalised way with human-like speed.
"As our most advanced models yet, Llama 4 is optimised to meet these needs.
"Of course, models are one piece of the larger ecosystem that brings these experiences to life.
"We’re focused on the full stack, which includes new product integrations.
"We’re excited to continue the conversations we’re having with our partners and the open-source community and, as always, we can’t wait to see the rich experiences people build in the new Llama ecosystem."
Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick models can be downloaded on llama.com and Hugging Face.
It is also available through Meta AI in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Direct, and on the Meta.AI website.
