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AI News Archive · April 2025

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Model releaseMeta AIRepoRadar take: High signal

Meta releases Llama 4 Scout and Maverick

Meta released Llama 4 Scout (17B active, 10M context) and Llama 4 Maverick (17B active, 400B total) as open-weight, mixture-of-experts models with native multimodality across text, image, and video.

Why it matters

Open-weight models with 10M-token context and native multimodal training are new territory for the open ecosystem; they make long-context document and video tasks feasible without API costs.

For BuildersEvidence: Source-confirmedConfidence: High