On Saturday, Meta introduced its next generation of language models — Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. Available on WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Direct, and also via Meta.ai, these are the first two open-source AI models within the Llama 4 family, with two more models expected to launch at a later date.
“Llama 4 is a milestone for Meta AI and for open source. For the first time, the best small, mid-sized, and potentially soon, frontier models will be open source,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, in an Instagram Reel published on Saturday.
Of the two, Llama 4 Scout is a small multimodal model with a 10 million token context length that can run on a single GPU such as the Nvidia H100. With 17 billion parameters across 16 experts, it features a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture and is considered the highest-performing model in its class.
In the same Instagram Reel, Zuckerberg described it as a “workhorse” that outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini Flash 2 in all benchmarks. It is also said to be smaller and more efficient than DeepSeek V3, which is another 17-billion-parameter model using 128 experts. Llama 4 Scout can also run on a single host for easy inferencing.
Today is the start of a new era of natively multimodal AI innovation.
Today, we’re introducing the first Llama 4 models: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick — our most advanced models yet and the best in their class for multimodality.
Llama 4 Scout
• 17B-active-parameter model… pic.twitter.com/Z8P3h0MA1P— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) April 5, 2025
Llama 4 Reasoning is set to launch next month, while Llama 4 Behemoth — a large language model with two trillion parameters — is currently in training and is expected to be the biggest model yet.
Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick are already available for free download via Meta and Hugging Face. However, there may be certain licensing restrictions that limit access to these open-source models.
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