“Starting next year, we expect future Llama models to become the most advanced in the industry.”

Mark ZuckerbergCEO

Founder and CEO, Meta Platforms

Llama 4 launched in April 2025 to a poor reception and a benchmark-submission controversy; the flagship Llama 4 Behemoth was delayed from April to mid-2025 and then reportedly shelved over weak internal performance, and Meta reorganized into a superintelligence lab reportedly weighing closed-source models. Llama was not the most advanced family in the industry at any point in 2025.