Meta has launched its Llama 4 AI model, claiming significant advancements that position the United States at the forefront of the global AI race, as stated by White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks. In a recent post, Sacks emphasized that for the US to maintain its lead, success in open-source AI is crucial. Meta's Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick models are touted as the best in their class for multimodality, each featuring 17 billion active parameters. The company asserts that these models outperform existing competitors, including Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-lite, and Mistral 3.1 across various benchmarks. Sacks has been a vocal supporter of the US AI industry since his appointment, highlighting the importance of not becoming complacent in this fast-evolving field. This release continues a trend of Meta aiming to establish dominance with its Llama series, following the release of the first Llama in February 2023, which garnered over 100,000 access requests.

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