A report suggests Meta’s Llama 4 has encountered a series of internal and external issues, forcing it into multiple delays.
Sources claim the company experienced increased pressure to do more with its machine learning following DeepSeek’s startling arrival.
Meta is also looking to improve the AI’s performance, reasoning, and math skills as it chases an alleged launch “later this month.”
Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased Llama 4’s 2025 launch last fall; however, the company also announced LlamaCon for April 29.
A report claims the next iteration of Meta’s LLM is still on the way, though it has run into a few roadblocks.
According to “people familiar with the matter,” The Information (paywall) claims Meta’s Llama 4 model has run into issues that have severely hindered its progress. Allegedly, one of the problems Meta ran into was with its competition, namely the Chinese-based AI model DeepSeek. The publication states these “challenges” concerned the performance of this new competitor and the “additional pressure” to “push the ball forward” with its upcoming AI model.
