From the always interesting Analytics India, July 15:
The company is reportedly focusing on building a closed source model instead.
Meta has reportedly considered abandoning the Llama 4 Behemoth, according to a July 14 report by the New York Times. The report indicates that a small group of senior staff at Meta’s newly announced superintelligence lab are now believed to be developing a closed-source model instead.
The Llama 4 Behemoth is currently the company’s biggest and most powerful AI model that has been announced.
According to the NYT report, Meta has completed training the Behemoth model but delayed its release due to ‘poor internal performance’. And after Meta announced the superintelligence lab last month, teams working on the model stopped running tests on it.
Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that the tech giant delayed the rollout of the model, ‘prompting concerns about the direction of its multi-billion dollar AI investments.” These individuals also told the publication that Meta’s engineers and researchers were concerned that its performance would not match the public statements made about its capabilities.
The model was expected to be released later this year. However, recent updates suggest that a release is now unlikely anytime soon.
If Meta develops a closed-source model, it would represent a significant departure from the company’s long-standing approach of creating open-source AI models.
In April, the company introduced the Llama 4 family of AI models, which includes three variants: Behemoth, Maverick, and Scout. The Behemoth is the largest, with a total of 2 trillion parameters. Meta dubbed the model as one of the most innovative AI models in the world....
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If interested see also July 13's:
ZuckAI: "Meta Superintelligence – Leadership Compute, Talent, and Data" (META)
