The news: Meta unveiled its latest family of AI models under the Llama 4 generation, which the company says can outperform comparable models from Google and OpenAI, per Bloomberg.
Its flagship, Llama 4 Behemoth, is a 2-trillion-parameter model that’s still in training. But two optimized versions—Maverick and Scout—are now live via Meta platforms.
Meta’s latest salvo comes as a direct response to the rise in competition, specifically from China’s DeepSeek, followed by a flurry of models from Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu.