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Meta Announces Llama 4

Date: February 14, 2025
Company: Meta AI
Category: Models & Research

Narrative

Next-generation open weights foundation model. Native multimodal. Sizes from 8B to 405B. Training on 15 trillion tokens. Open reasoning model included.

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Reality

Announcement detailed but release scheduled Q2 2025. Multimodal approach similar to Gemini. Reasoning model promises DeepSeek-style efficiency. Community anticipation extremely high.

Implication

Signaled Meta doubling down on open approach. Timing strategic for developer mindshare. Open reasoning model could accelerate capability proliferation significantly.

Tags

  • meta
  • model-release
  • open-source
  • multimodal
  • reasoning