The AI and cryptocurrency advisor from the White House asserts that Meta’s launch of its new AI model, Llama 4, has positioned the United States at the forefront of the global competition for AI supremacy.
“For the US to succeed in the AI contest, we must also excel in open-source initiatives, and Llama 4 has restored our leading edge,” the advisor remarked in an April 5 post on social media, as discussions intensify regarding the rivalry between the US and China in the AI sector.
Since assuming his position following the inauguration of the previous President, he has been vocal about the urgency of the AI competition. Just over a week into the role, he expressed confidence in the US’s prospects but cautioned against complacency.
Llama 4 “sets the standard for multimodality,” Meta claims
His latest remarks came on the heels of Meta’s AI division announcing the release of the fourth generation of its Llama models: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick.
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Meta described these as its most sophisticated models to date and the leading models in the multimodal category.
The Llama 4 Scout model is reported to have 17 billion active parameters and operates with 16 experts.
The company asserts that it surpasses rival models—Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-lite, and Mistral 3.1—on a wide array of well-recognized benchmarks.
In contrast, Llama 4 Maverick also boasts 17 billion active parameters but employs 128 experts. Meta claims that this configuration allows Maverick to outperform not only GPT-4o but also Gemini 2.0 Flash across numerous significant benchmarks.
Maverick’s instruction-tuned benchmarks.
Additionally, it was noted that Maverick can achieve comparable results to DeepSeek v3 in reasoning and coding tasks, all while utilizing only half the number of active parameters.
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Less than a year ago, in July 2024, the CEO of Meta expressed optimism that by 2025, Llama models would potentially be recognized as the industry’s most advanced offerings. It has already been over two years since the initial limited release of Llama 1 in February 2023.
During that time, Meta reported being “overwhelmed” by the demand, receiving more than 100,000 requests for access.
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