Llama 4 Released
Narrative
Open weights multimodal model family. 8B to 405B parameters. Native image/video understanding and generation. Reasoning model competitive with DeepSeek R1. Apache 2.0 license.
Reality
Benchmarks strong: 405B matches GPT-4.5 on many tasks. Multimodal capabilities excellent. Reasoning model 78.3% AIME. Open weights spark massive ecosystem. Downloaded 10M+ times in month.
Implication
Largest open weights release ever. Multimodal + reasoning combination unprecedented in open model. Ecosystem explosion: thousands of fine-tunes. Closed model economics challenged fundamentally.