Meta unveils new Llama 4 models

Meta has just revealed Llama 4 AI models that can be used on Meta AI through WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Direct or the Meta AI website.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, states in an Instagram video: “Our goal is to build the world’s leading AI, open source it, and make it universally accessible so that everyone in the world benefits. And I’ve said for a while that I think that open source AI is going to become the leading models, and with Llama 4 this is starting to happen. Meta AI is getting a big upgrade today.”

The new Llama 4 models, Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout, are released on Meta AI in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Direct or the Meta AI website. Users can try them out now.

These multimodal AI models are said to be inspired by DeepSeek as they use mixture of experts, a new machine learning technique which allows different parts of the model to be trained for specific tasks. This lets the model perform better and be more efficient.