Llama 4 405B Released
Narrative
Flagship open weights model. Full multimodal. Reasoning capability. Agentic optimization. Apache 2.0 license.
Reality
Benchmarks match GPT-5: 92.8% MMLU-Pro. Multimodal quality excellent. Reasoning competitive. Open weights spark ecosystem explosion. Infrastructure requirements significant but manageable.
Implication
Largest capability open weights release. Closed/open performance parity achieved. Meta ecosystem dominance. Commercial implications massive. AI economics fundamentally challenged.