“In 2025, I expect... Llama 4 will become the leading state of the art model, and we'll build an AI engineer that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts.”

Mark ZuckerbergCEO

Founder and CEO, Meta Platforms

Llama 4 shipped in April 2025 but was not state of the art: it drew a benchmark-submission controversy, the flagship Behemoth was pushed back and then reportedly shelved for weak internal performance, and Meta pivoted to a new superintelligence lab reportedly considering closed models. AI-written code did grow at Meta, but the central prediction failed.