Llama 3 and 4: Meta sustains the open ecosystem
New Llama generations improved multimodality and agents while keeping downloadable weights as industrial strategy.
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The 2024–2025 open-weight frontier race
Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, and others brought public weights near closed-API performance, redefining “frontier.”
Meta’s LLaMA (2023): the spark of open weights
Meta released LLaMA and, after a leak, catalyzed an open fine-tune ecosystem that challenged closed APIs.