Meta Launches Its First Closed-Source Model, Muse Spark
Meta released Muse Spark, its first fully proprietary flagship AI model, marking a strategic shift from open-source Llama toward competing directly with OpenAI and Google.
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Meta's Next Flagship Models Avocado and Mango Will Be Partially Closed-Source
Meta is developing two new flagship AI models, Avocado and Mango, but unlike the fully open Llama series, these will only be partially open-sourced, with key capabilities like cybersecurity code generation withheld.
Five Major AI Models Face Off in April 2026
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and xAI all released or announced major AI models in April 2026, intensifying competition. The article analyzes each model's capabilities, pricing shifts, and whether the nature of the AI race has fundamentally changed.
Llama 4 Debuts MoE Architecture with Scout and Maverick Models
Meta released Llama 4 on April 5, 2025, introducing the first MoE architecture in the Llama series with two models: Scout (17B active parameters, 10M token context) and Maverick (17B active, 128 experts, 1M token context), both natively multimodal via early fusion.