This is a developing situation, and a surprising one for Meta, whose AI reputation has improved with each new Llama release before this one.

Meta has released a new collection of AI models, Llama 4, in its Llama family — on a Saturday, no less. There are four new models in total: Llama 4 Scout, Llama 4 Maverick, and Llama 4 Behemoth. All were trained on “large amounts of unlabeled text, image, and video data” to give them “broad visual understanding,” Meta says.

Meta has debuted the first two models in its Llama 4 family, its first to use mixture of experts tech. A Saturday post from the social media giant announced the release of two models: