Meta Releases Llama 4 Series: Scout and Maverick Models Open-Sourced, Performance on Par with GPT-4o

Meta AI has released the Llama 4 series, including Scout (17B active parameters) and Maverick (17B active parameters, 128-expert MoE). Maverick matches GPT-4o on multiple benchmarks, while Scout focuses on low-latency inference. Both models are fully open-sourced, commercially usable, and already integrated into local inference frameworks like Llama.cpp and Ollama.