Meta dropped Llama 4 on a Saturday, April 5, 2025, without warning or a coordinated press cycle.
other
1
Videos
100%
Confidence
5/16/2026
First Seen
5/16/2026
Last Seen
verified false
AI Fact-Check
Source Videos (1)
How Meta Went From Open Source Hero to AI's Biggest Villain
Coding with Lewis
9:33
Related Claims
Llama's weights leaked onto 4chan and were torrented across the internet within a week of its initial release.
other1 video
Llama 3 was released in April 2024, with an 8 billion parameter model suitable for consumer-grade devices and a 70 billion parameter model that closed the performance gap with state-of-the-art proprietary models.
politics1 video
Meta released a frontier AI model for free in 2023, allowing developers to download, run, modify, and build businesses on it without API keys, subscriptions, or permissions.
tech1 video
Meta's Llama model was downloaded over a billion times within two years, making it the most downloaded AI model in history.
politics1 video