“We're training the Llama 4 models on a cluster that is bigger than 100,000 H100s or bigger than anything that I've seen reported for what others are doing. I expect that the smaller Llama 4 models will be ready first, and they'll be ready, we expect, sometime early next year. And I think that they're going to be a big deal on several fronts, new modalities, capabilities, stronger reasoning, and much faster.”

Mark ZuckerbergCEO

Founder, Chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms

The smaller Llama 4 models (Scout and Maverick) shipped on April 5, 2025 — essentially 'early 2025' but just past the first quarter — and were natively multimodal as promised. However, the promised leap in reasoning did not materialize: the flagship Behemoth teacher model was repeatedly delayed and effectively shelved, no Llama 4 reasoning model was released, and the launch was marred by a benchmarking controversy.