Meta Releases Llama 4 Open-Weight Models With Native Multimodal Support
Meta says the Llama 4 family is free for commercial use under its updated license and matches closed models on several benchmarks.
Meta has released the Llama 4 family of open-weight models, available in several sizes with native support for text, image, and audio inputs. The company says the largest variant matches or exceeds closed frontier models on a range of public benchmarks while remaining free for most commercial use under Meta's updated community license.
Cloud providers including major hyperscalers said they would offer hosted versions of Llama 4 within days of the release, continuing the pattern set by previous Llama generations.
Originally published by Reuters Technology.
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