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Meta Releases Llama 4: Open-Source AI Gets Smarter
Llama 4 closes the gap with proprietary models, offering competitive performance with full open-source access.
2026-02-12
Meta has released Llama 4, its latest open-source language model family. The new models come in 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter sizes, with the largest model approaching proprietary model performance on most benchmarks. Key improvements include better instruction following, reduced hallucination rates, and improved multilingual capabilities. The models are available under Meta's open-source license for commercial use.