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## Why Llama 4 Maverick Matters In April 2025, Meta shipped the Llama 4 family and reset what open-weight models can do. Llama 4 Maverick — the mid-tier model in the three-model lineup (Scout, Maverick, Behemoth) — packs 400 billion total parameters...

Meta launched Muse Spark on April 8, 2026 — the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), and the company's most deliberate signal yet that it is playing to win in the closed-model frontier AI race. Led by Alexandr Wang, who joined as Meta'...

In April 2025, Meta released Llama 4 Scout and fundamentally changed the economics of running a capable vision-language model. Before Scout, getting GPT-4-class multimodal performance on your own hardware required either massive compute or painful tr...

Meta just made a bet that contradicts everything they've said about AI for the past three years. Since Llama 1, Meta's AI strategy has rested on a single thesis: open weights win. Democratize the frontier, let the ecosystem build on top, and you win ...
