White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks say Meta has led the US in the global race for artificial intelligence dominance, the latest AI model, the Llama 4.
“In order for the US to win AI races, we need to win open source as well, and Lama 4 will lead us,” Sachs said in the X-Post on April 5th.
Sachs has been openly speaking about AI racing since taking on his role following President Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20th.
Lama 4 “Best in class for multimodality,” says Meta
Sack's latest comments came after Meta's AI division said in an X post that he was introducing the fourth generation of Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick on the same day.
Source: David Sacks
“It's our most advanced model and the best in our class because of its multimodality,” Meta said.
Meta said the Llama 4 Scout Model has 17 billion active parameters and uses 16 experts.
The company claims it is superior to its rivals' large-scale language models (Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flashlight, and Mistral 3.1).
Meanwhile, the Llama 4 Maverick also has 17 billion active parameters, but consists of 128 experts. Meta argued that the Maverick model outperforms the GPT-4O and Gemini 2.0 flashes “with a wide range of widely accepted benchmarks.”
llama 4 Maverick instruction tuning benchmark. Source: Meta
Maverick also said it can work similarly to DeepSeek V3 in “Inference and Coding Tasks” despite using only half of the active parameters.
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A year ago, in July 2024, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he expected the Lama model to be “the most advanced in the industry” in 2025. It's only been two years since Meta first released the limited edition version of the Llama 1 in February 2023.
At the time, Meta said it had been “blown away” by demand and received more than 100,000 requests for access.
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