AI Tool Profile

Llama

Meta introduced the Llama 4 herd with Scout and Maverick as open-weight natively multimodal mixture-of-experts models, plus a Behemoth preview.

Company
Meta
Primary category
AI Open-Weight Models
Best for
Developers, researchers, and enterprises building multimodal applications, long-context systems, and open-weight model products.
Pricing
Weights and partner platform access are available; actual cost depends on hosting, inference provider, and hardware requirements.
Free plan
yes
API
yes
Open source/open weight
yes
Linked launches
4
Latest launch date
April 5, 2025
Last verified
2026-06-08

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Source links
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Freshness
Verified June 8, 2026
Last verified
June 8, 2026
Last updated
June 7, 2026

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What It Does

Meta introduced the Llama 4 herd with Scout and Maverick as open-weight natively multimodal mixture-of-experts models, plus a Behemoth preview.

Launch History

AI Open-Weight Models

The Llama 4 herd

Meta introduced the Llama 4 herd with Scout and Maverick as open-weight natively multimodal mixture-of-experts models, plus a Behemoth preview.

Free: Yes API: Yes Open: Yes
Clear use caseBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendlyTraction signal
Kingy
Unscored
Demo
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YouTube
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Important for the hub because Llama 4 reset Meta's open-model direction around multimodal MoE models.

AI Open-Weight Models

Llama 3.2 vision and edge models

Meta released Llama 3.2 with 11B and 90B vision models plus lightweight 1B and 3B text models for edge and mobile devices.

Free: Yes API: Yes Open: Yes
Clear use caseBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendlyTraction signal
Kingy
Unscored
Demo
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YouTube
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A high-value open-model record for builders watching local and multimodal deployment.

AI Open-Weight Models

Introducing Llama 3.1

Meta launched Llama 3.1 including the 405B open-weight frontier model, upgraded 8B and 70B models, 128K context, multilingual support, and tool use.

Free: Yes API: Yes Open: Yes
Clear use caseBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendlyTraction signal
Kingy
Unscored
Demo
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YouTube
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Essential for the hub because Llama 3.1 was a serious open alternative to closed frontier models.

AI Open-Weight Models

Introducing Meta Llama 3

Meta released Llama 3 with 8B and 70B pretrained and instruction-tuned language models, plus safety tools for developers.

Free: Yes API: Yes Open: Yes
Clear use caseBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendlyTraction signal
Kingy
Unscored
Demo
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YouTube
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Foundational open-weight record because Llama 3 became a default option for developers wanting capable deployable models.