Meta model releases

Release details

1. Sep 23, 2026Meta

   Muse Realtime Avatar

   Meta introduced Muse Realtime Avatar, an embodiment model that turns Muse Realtime Voice into expressive interactive avatars with synchronized lip movement and gestures. It powers live video conversations in the Muse app, which Meta says are rolling out, and generated video is watermarked with Video Seal.

   For buildersRun a short live conversation with a reference photo or illustration and check whether the avatar keeps consistent appearance and lip sync across turns before building a branded character around it.

   Official announcement (opens in a new tab)↗
2. Apr 5, 2025Meta

   Llama 4 Scout and Maverick

   Meta released two open-weight, natively multimodal mixture-of-experts models. Behemoth was described but not released.

   For buildersMultimodal open weights offer another route to custom document and image-understanding systems.

   Official announcement (opens in a new tab)↗
3. Sep 25, 2024Meta

   Llama 3.2

   Meta released small text models for edge devices and larger models with vision capabilities.

   For buildersMatch model size and modality to the device and task instead of defaulting to the largest model.

   Official announcement (opens in a new tab)↗
4. Jul 23, 2024Meta

   Llama 3.1

   Llama 3.1 expanded context to 128K, added language support, and introduced the 405B model.

   For buildersCompare the infrastructure costs of larger open-weight models with a managed API.

   Official announcement (opens in a new tab)↗
5. Apr 18, 2024Meta

   Llama 3

   Meta introduced the next generation of Llama with improved language and instruction-following capabilities.

   For buildersUse a consistent evaluation set when comparing hosted and self-hosted models.

   Official announcement (opens in a new tab)↗
6. Jul 18, 2023Meta

   Llama 2

   Meta released Llama 2 models for research and commercial use under its community license.

   For buildersDownloadable weights opened more choices for hosting and customizing a conversational model.

   Official announcement (opens in a new tab)↗Run Llama 2 locally with Ollama
7. Feb 24, 2023Meta

   LLaMA (research release)

   Meta introduced a family of foundation language models for research, ranging from 7B to 65B parameters.

   For buildersA foundational milestone in the development of downloadable language models.

   Official announcement (opens in a new tab)↗
8. May 3, 2022Meta

   OPT-175B (research access)

   Meta shared a large pretrained language model for research, alongside smaller models and training documentation.

   For buildersA milestone in making large language model research more reproducible.

   Official announcement (opens in a new tab)↗