Model Profile: LLaMA 4 Maverick (Meta)

Tagline: Meta's next-gen multimodal MoE model for top performance in coding, reasoning, and vision.

📊 At a Glance

• Primary Strength: Native Multimodality (Text & Vision), Excellent Coding & Reasoning, High Efficiency (MoE), Large Context.

• Performance Profile:

  • Intelligence: 🟢 Higher (Industry-leading for its class)

  • Speed: 🟢 Faster (17B active parameters)

  • Cost: 🟡 Medium (Efficient MoE architecture)

• Key Differentiator: Natively multimodal (early fusion of text & vision), 17B active / 128 experts (400B total) MoE architecture, 1M token context. Beats GPT-4 on image-text benchmarks.

• allmates.ai Recommendation: A leading-edge choice for Mates requiring advanced multimodal understanding (especially vision), top-tier coding and reasoning, with excellent performance-to-cost ratio.

📖 Overview

LLaMA 4 Maverick, announced by Meta AI in mid-2025, is a next-generation, natively multimodal foundation model. It features a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with approximately 17 billion active parameters (out of ~400B total from 128 experts), designed for high efficiency and top-tier performance. Maverick excels in coding, reasoning, and particularly in vision tasks, reportedly outperforming models like GPT-4 on image-text benchmarks. It supports a 1 million token context window and is designed for high-quality chat and advanced image captioning/analysis.

🛠️ Key Specifications

🔀 Modalities

• Input Supported:

  • Text

  • Images

• Output Generated:

  • Text

⭐ Core Capabilities Assessment

• Reasoning & Problem Solving: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ (Very Strong)

  • Excellent reasoning capabilities, enhanced by MoE architecture and refined post-training.

• Writing & Content Creation: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ (Very Strong)

  • Produces coherent, context-rich text, capable of creative tasks combining text and visuals.

• Coding & Development: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ (Very Strong)

  • "Industry-leading capabilities on coding"; a top performer for code generation and understanding.

• Mathematical & Scientific Tasks: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ (Very Strong)

  • Strong in math and science, can interpret graphs/equations from images.

• Instruction Following: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ (Good)

  • Well-tuned for chat and following complex instructions, including multimodal ones.

• Factual Accuracy & Knowledge: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ (Very Strong)

  • Broad and up-to-date knowledge base, with strong grounding in visual information.

🚀 Performance & 💰 Cost

• Speed / Latency: Faster

  • High performance-to-cost ratio due to 17B active parameters, making it fast for its capability level.

• Pricing Tier (on allmates.ai): Medium

  • Designed for efficiency; likely competitive pricing on cloud platforms.

✨ Key Features & Strengths

• Native Multimodality (Vision): Early fusion of text and vision for deep image understanding.

• Leading Coding Performance: A top-tier model for software development tasks.

• Efficient MoE Architecture: High capability with efficient inference (17B active).

• Large Context Window: 1 million tokens for processing extensive information.

• Advanced Image Understanding: Excels at precise image captioning, analysis, and visual Q&A.

• Open Availability (Likely): Continues Meta's trend, with deployment on major cloud platforms.

🎯 Ideal Use Cases on allmates.ai

• Multimodal Customer Support Mates: Understanding user issues from text and uploaded screenshots.

• Advanced Coding Assistants: Mates providing sophisticated code generation, review, and debugging with visual context (e.g., UI mockups).

• Visual Q&A and Analysis: Mates that can answer detailed questions about images, charts, or diagrams.

• Content Creation with Visuals: Generating descriptive text for images or creating content that integrates visual understanding.

• High-Performance Generalist Mates: When a blend of top-tier reasoning, coding, and vision is needed efficiently.

⚠️ Limitations & Considerations

• Audio/Video Modalities: Primarily focused on text and vision at launch; other modalities not explicitly detailed.

• Complexity of MoE Deployment: Self-hosting such a model, despite active parameter efficiency, can still be complex.

• License Terms: Specific terms for commercial use of LLaMA 4 weights should be verified.

🏷️ Available Versions & Snapshots (on allmates.ai)

• llama-4-maverick (or similar, alias pointing to the recommended version)