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Meta to release Llama 4 this month after delaying it twice, timeline could still change
- Meta is planning to release its Llama 4 model later this month, after delaying it at least twice, the Information reported citing two people familiar with the matter.
- According to the sources, Meta could push back the release of Llama 4 again.
- The report indicated that one of the reasons for the delay is during development, the model didn’t meet Meta’s technical benchmarks, especially in reasoning and math tasks.
- The report also adds that Llama 4 was less capable than OpenAI’s models in human-like voice conversations.
- Llama 4 is expected to borrow certain technical aspects from DeepSeek, such as mixture of experts method, which trains separate parts of the model, making them experts in certain fields.
- Meta could release the model during its Llamacon event scheduled for April 29.
- Sam Altman announced today that GPT-5 will arrive in a few months and that it will be much better than they originally thought.