Meta has today launched Llama 4, an innovative series of multimodal models that have the potential to transform interaction with artificial intelligence. These models will be available through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and, in the near future, on Amazon Bedrock, marking a significant advancement in the company’s technology.
Llama 4 stands out for its mixture of experts (MoE) architecture and its impressive context window, reaching up to 10 million tokens. This capability allows the model to address complex tasks ranging from text processing to computer vision. Among the variants offered, there are three key models: Scout, which stands out for its multimodal capabilities; Maverick, designed to deliver high performance at a competitive cost; and Behemoth, which is currently in the preview phase.
The Llama 4 Maverick model, with 17 billion active parameters and 128 experts, is optimized for general assistance and chat applications. Meanwhile, Llama 4 Scout, also with 17 billion parameters, has been developed for text and image comprehension tasks, with support for 12 languages, facilitating the creation of AI applications that transcend language barriers.
Through SageMaker JumpStart, developers have a secure environment to deploy these models, as well as the ability to customize them according to their specific needs. This platform favors the seamless integration of pre-trained models into the artificial intelligence development cycle, providing access to various architectures without requiring them to be built from scratch.
Meta has highlighted that Llama 4 presents a significant increase in the manageable context length compared to its predecessor, Llama 3. This improves the ability to perform complex tasks, such as summarizing multiple documents and reasoning about extensive source code. The applications of these models are extensive and are designed to optimize both specific tasks and automation and performance in work environments.
With a focus on ease of use and integration of multiple modalities, from text to images, Llama 4 promises to be an invaluable tool for data scientists and machine learning engineers seeking creative solutions to complex problems. With this new offering, Meta is setting a new standard in how artificial intelligence can perceive and adapt to diverse contexts, providing users with a more enriching and effective experience.
via: MiMub in Spanish
