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Meta has released the first two models from its multimodal Llama 4 suite: LLama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. Maverick is “the workhorse” of the two and excels at image and text understanding for “general assistant and chat use cases,” the company said in a blog post, while the smaller model Scout could tackle things like “multi-document summarization, parsing extensive user activity for personalized tasks, and reasoning over vast codebases.” The company also introduced Llama 4 Behemoth, an upcoming model it says is “among the world’s smartest LLMs” — and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said we’ll be hearing about a fourth model, LLama 4 Reasoning, “in the next month.” 

Both Maverick and Scout are available to download now from the LLama website and Hugging Face, and they’ve been added to Meta AI, including for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram DMs. 

Meta

Scout has 17 billion active parameters with 16 experts, Meta says. According to Zuckerberg, “It’s extremely fast, natively multimodal, and has an industry leading, nearly infinite 10 million token context length, and it is designed to run on a single GPU.” Maverick on the other hand has 17 billion active parameters with 128 experts. The company says it beats competitors like GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 on coding, reasoning, multilingual, long-context and image benchmarks, and stacks up against DeepSeek v3.1 on reasoning and coding.

Zuckerberg is already calling the upcoming Behemoth model, which is still training, “the highest performing base model in the world,” with 288 billion active parameters, according to the company. It may not be here yet, but it’s likely we’ll be hearing a lot more about that and the Reasoning model soon; Meta’s big AI developer conference, LlamaCon, is just a few weeks away.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-introduces-llama-4-with-two-new-models-available-now-and-two-more-on-the-way-214524295.html?src=rss

Meta has released the first two models from its multimodal Llama 4 suite: LLama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. Maverick is “the workhorse” of the two and excels at image and text understanding for “general assistant and chat use cases,” the company said in a blog post, while the smaller model Scout could tackle things like “multi-document summarization, parsing extensive user activity for personalized tasks, and reasoning over vast codebases.” The company also introduced Llama 4 Behemoth, an upcoming model it says is “among the world’s smartest LLMs” — and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said we’ll be hearing about a fourth model, LLama 4 Reasoning, “in the next month.” 

Both Maverick and Scout are available to download now from the LLama website and Hugging Face, and they’ve been added to Meta AI, including for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram DMs. 

Meta

Scout has 17 billion active parameters with 16 experts, Meta says. According to Zuckerberg, “It’s extremely fast, natively multimodal, and has an industry leading, nearly infinite 10 million token context length, and it is designed to run on a single GPU.” Maverick on the other hand has 17 billion active parameters with 128 experts. The company says it beats competitors like GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 on coding, reasoning, multilingual, long-context and image benchmarks, and stacks up against DeepSeek v3.1 on reasoning and coding.

Zuckerberg is already calling the upcoming Behemoth model, which is still training, “the highest performing base model in the world,” with 288 billion active parameters, according to the company. It may not be here yet, but it’s likely we’ll be hearing a lot more about that and the Reasoning model soon; Meta’s big AI developer conference, LlamaCon, is just a few weeks away.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-introduces-llama-4-with-two-new-models-available-now-and-two-more-on-the-way-214524295.html?src=rss

Meta has released the first two models from its multimodal Llama 4 suite: LLama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. Maverick is “the workhorse” of the two and excels at image and text understanding for “general assistant and chat use cases,” the company said in a blog post, while the smaller model Scout could tackle things like “multi-document summarization, parsing extensive user activity for personalized tasks, and reasoning over vast codebases.” The company also introduced Llama 4 Behemoth, an upcoming model it says is “among the world’s smartest LLMs” — and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said we’ll be hearing about a fourth model, LLama 4 Reasoning, “in the next month.” 

Both Maverick and Scout are available to download now from the LLama website and Hugging Face, and they’ve been added to Meta AI, including for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram DMs. 

Meta

Scout has 17 billion active parameters with 16 experts, Meta says. According to Zuckerberg, “It’s extremely fast, natively multimodal, and has an industry leading, nearly infinite 10 million token context length, and it is designed to run on a single GPU.” Maverick on the other hand has 17 billion active parameters with 128 experts. The company says it beats competitors like GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 on coding, reasoning, multilingual, long-context and image benchmarks, and stacks up against DeepSeek v3.1 on reasoning and coding.

Zuckerberg is already calling the upcoming Behemoth model, which is still training, “the highest performing base model in the world,” with 288 billion active parameters, according to the company. It may not be here yet, but it’s likely we’ll be hearing a lot more about that and the Reasoning model soon; Meta’s big AI developer conference, LlamaCon, is just a few weeks away.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-introduces-llama-4-with-two-new-models-available-now-and-two-more-on-the-way-214524295.html?src=rss

OpenAI has announced a limited-time offer making its premium subscription service, ChatGPT Plus, available for free until the end of May 2025, but only for a specific group: college students in the United States and Canada. The news was confirmed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

ChatGPT Plus typically costs $20 per month and offers several enhancements over the free plan. These include higher message limits, access to advanced reasoning models, and more robust research capabilities, all designed to support academic and professional work more efficiently. The offer provides eligible students access to these features at no cost for two months.

Who Is Eligible?

To qualify for this offer, users must be:

• A full-time or part-time student
• Enrolled in a degree-granting institution in either the U.S. or Canada

The verification process is managed through SheerID, a third-party platform commonly used for academic status verification. Students will need to confirm their eligibility by visiting the official offer page and completing the verification process through SheerID.

How to Redeem the Offer

1. Visit the official promotion link provided by OpenAI.
2. Verify student status through SheerID’s platform.
3. Once verified, users will be redirected to ChatGPT to claim their free ChatGPT Plus subscription.
4. If a student is already subscribed to ChatGPT Plus, their account will receive a two-month credit, effectively giving them the subscription free for that period.

OpenAI has not specified whether this offer will be extended to other countries or groups in the future. The promotion is part of OpenAI’s broader push to expand the reach of its AI tools in educational settings and provide students with greater access to advanced digital resources. For full details and to access the offer, students are encouraged to visit OpenAI’s website.

Claim It Now! ChatGPT Plus Temporarily Free For U.S. And Canadian College Students

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OpenAI has announced a limited-time offer making its premium subscription service, ChatGPT Plus, available for free until the end of May 2025, but only for a specific group: college students in the United States and Canada. The news was confirmed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

ChatGPT Plus typically costs $20 per month and offers several enhancements over the free plan. These include higher message limits, access to advanced reasoning models, and more robust research capabilities, all designed to support academic and professional work more efficiently. The offer provides eligible students access to these features at no cost for two months.

Who Is Eligible?

To qualify for this offer, users must be:

• A full-time or part-time student
• Enrolled in a degree-granting institution in either the U.S. or Canada

The verification process is managed through SheerID, a third-party platform commonly used for academic status verification. Students will need to confirm their eligibility by visiting the official offer page and completing the verification process through SheerID.

How to Redeem the Offer

1. Visit the official promotion link provided by OpenAI.
2. Verify student status through SheerID’s platform.
3. Once verified, users will be redirected to ChatGPT to claim their free ChatGPT Plus subscription.
4. If a student is already subscribed to ChatGPT Plus, their account will receive a two-month credit, effectively giving them the subscription free for that period.

OpenAI has not specified whether this offer will be extended to other countries or groups in the future. The promotion is part of OpenAI’s broader push to expand the reach of its AI tools in educational settings and provide students with greater access to advanced digital resources. For full details and to access the offer, students are encouraged to visit OpenAI’s website.

Claim It Now! ChatGPT Plus Temporarily Free For U.S. And Canadian College Students

, original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.