Meta released the first two models from its multimodal Camel 4 kit: Camel 4 Scout and Camel 4 Camel 4. The company said in one Blog Postswhile smaller model scouts can solve “multi-file summary, parse a wide range of user activities for personalized tasks and reasoning on a wide range of code bases.” The company also launched the Llama 4 Behemoth, the upcoming model, which is “one of the smartest LLMs in the world” and CEO Mark Zuckerberg Say we’ll hear the fourth model about Llama 4’s reasoning, “Next Month”.
Maverick and Scout are now available from camel Website and Hug the faceand has been added to Meta AI, including for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram DMS.
Meta said the Scout has 17 billion active parameters and has 16 experts. “It’s very fast, local multimodal, and has an industry-leading, almost unlimited 10 million token context length designed to run on one GPU,” Zuckerberg said. “On the other hand, the Mavericks have 17 billion active parameters and 128 experts.” The company said it beats competitors like GPT-4O and Gemini 2.0 to coding, reasoning, multilingual, novel and image benchmarks, and compares with DeepSeek v3.1 in terms of reasoning and coding.
Zuckerberg has called the upcoming behemoth model “the world’s highest performing fundamental model” with 288 billion active parameters training, the company said. It may not be here yet, but we will likely hear more inference models soon. Meta’s large AI developer meeting, Cougara few weeks away.
