Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models | TechCrunch

Meta has released a new collection of AI models, Llama 4, in its Llama family — on a Saturday, no less.

There are four new models in total: Llama 4 Scout, Llama 4 Maverick, and Llama 4 Behemoth. All were trained on “large amounts of unlabeled text, image, and video data” to give them “broad visual understanding,” Meta says.

The success of open models from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which perform on par or better than Meta’s previous flagship Llama models, reportedly…