🐎 Llama 4 Maverick — The New Open-Weight Multimodal Champion
Meta’s cutting-edge model with a 128-expert architecture
🔍 What Is Llama 4 Maverick?
Llama 4 Maverick is part of Meta AI’s new Llama 4 series, released April 5, 2025. It’s an open-weight, natively multimodal LLM built using a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture: it activates only 17 billion parameters per request, drawn from a total pool of 400 billion, across 128 experts en.wikipedia.org+13ai.meta.com+13ibm.com+13.
⚙️ Key Technical Specs
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🧠 Active parameters: 17 B
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🌐 Total capacity: 400 B via MoE
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📸 Multimodal: handles both text and images natively console.groq.com+6langdb.ai+6ibm.com+6dappier.medium.com+1console.groq.com+1
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⏳ Massive context window: 1,048,576 tokens (~1 million) en.wikipedia.org+7docs.oracle.com+7fireworks.ai+7
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🗣️ Multilingual: supports 12 languages, training data from 200 llama.com+3docs.oracle.com+3en.wikipedia.org+3
🚀 Why It Matters
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Multimodal & native fusion: Unlike models that layer modalities after training, Maverick processes text and images together from the start ai.meta.com+8llama.com+8fireworks.ai+8.
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High performance cross-domain: Excels at reasoning + image understanding + coding across benchmarks — outperforming GPT‑4o, Gemini Flash, and DeepSeek V3 en.wikipedia.org+3dappier.medium.com+3datacamp.com+3.
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Incredible context memory: Work with entire codebases or books in one go thanks to the 1 million token window — perfect for summarization, complex analysis, and long multi-document tasks .
🎯 When to Use Maverick
| Use Case | Why It Rocks |
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| Visual + text reasoning | Processes images and text simultaneously — ideal for document analysis, captions, VQA, etc. |
| Large-context tasks | Summarize big documents or entire chat sessions in one sweep. |
| Multilingual use | Supports diverse global languages natively. |
| Code + image workflows | Great for analyzing diagrams, code screenshots, or UI mockups. |
| Open-source flexibility | Free to run, fine-tune, containerize (under Community License). |