Meta plans to release the ultra-large-scale AI model 'Llama 4 Behemoth' with a total of 2 trillion parameters, but development has been delayed until fall 2025 or later.
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Meta to postpone release of Llama 4 Behemoth model, report claims - SiliconANGLE
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At the time of the Llama 4 series' announcement on April 5, 2025, it was revealed that there were three models of different sizes: 'Llama 4 Scout', 'Llama 4 Maverick' and 'Llama 4 Behemoth'. Of these, the relatively small Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick were released on the same day as the announcement, but the Llama 4 Behemoth was in training and its release was postponed.
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At the time of its initial announcement, it was revealed that Llama 4 Behemoth was a huge model with 288 billion active parameters and 2 trillion total parameters. Below are the benchmark results released at the same time as the announcement of Llama 4 Behemoth. Although Llama 4 Behemoth was still in the training stage at the time of its announcement, it is being promoted as having performance that far exceeds Anthropic's 'Claude Sonnet 3.7', Google's 'Gemini 2.0 Pro', and OpenAI's 'GPT-4.5'.
However, the release date of Llama 4 Behemoth has not been made clear even at the time of writing, more than a month after the announcement. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Meta had planned to release Llama 4 Behemoth in April 2025, but had changed the release date to June 2025 or later. And at the time of writing, the release date has been further delayed to fall 2025.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Meta's development team is working on improving Llama 4 Behemoth's features, but there are doubts within the team about whether it is good enough to be released to the public. It also reports that 'Meta's senior executives are unhappy with the performance of the Llama 4 development team and believe that the development team is responsible for the delay in the development of Llama 4 Behemoth. As a result, Meta is considering a major shake-up of the management team in its AI product division.'
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