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Meta releases Llama 4 Scout and Maverick as open-weights multimodal models

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Meta released Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, natively multimodal open-weights models and its first built with a mixture-of-experts design, each with 17 billion active parameters (16 and 128 experts). Scout fits on a single NVIDIA H100 GPU and supports a 10-million-token context. Meta previewed Llama 4 Behemoth, a 288 billion active parameter teacher model still in training.

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Developers could download Meta’s first mixture-of-experts open-weights models, with Scout running on a single NVIDIA H100.

When
5 Apr 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0177
Who
Meta

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Meta. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Source copy: download the page text as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2025-0177: “Meta releases Llama 4 Scout and Maverick as open-weights multimodal models.” wheresthe.ai, 5 Apr 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/meta-llama-4-release-2025-04/ (source: Meta).

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