Meta
Llama 4 Scout and Maverick
Announced Apr 5, 2025
Open weight multimodal models
01
What could it do?
Meta released Scout and Maverick with native text and image understanding.
02
What changed?
A new mixture of experts family with downloadable weights.
WHY IT MATTERED
Developers could adapt and host these models.
03
Where it fell short
Family announcement; Scout and Maverick are different models. Behemoth was not released here.
Sources checked Oct 7, 2026
Release facts were checked against the sources below. Performance claims belong to the developers; we have not independently tested these models.
Developer announcement or release logBenchmark results
No comparable ECI score is available for this release in our source snapshot. Missing scores are never estimated.