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While OpenAI charges for API access and Google keeps its best models behind subscription walls, Meta keeps giving away its most powerful AI for free.
Llama 4 is the latest — and most significant — version of Meta's open-source AI model family. It is natively multimodal, supports 200 languages, and is available for free download on Hugging Face right now.
The smallest model in the family, Llama 4 Scout is designed to run on a single NVIDIA H100 GPU. This makes it accessible to startups, researchers, and businesses that do not have hyperscale compute budgets.
Despite its compact size, Scout supports:
Llama 4 Maverick is Meta's flagship open-source model. It also runs on a single GPU host and is positioned as a direct competitor to OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini 2.0 on complex reasoning tasks.
Maverick has become the industry standard for open-source AI, according to independent benchmarks. The fact that it is free to use and deploy is a significant disruption to the paid AI model market.
Llama 4 Behemoth is not publicly available — it is Meta's most powerful model yet, described as "one of the smartest LLMs in the world." Behemoth is used primarily as a teacher model to train Scout and Maverick, transferring its capabilities to the smaller models through a process called knowledge distillation.
One of Llama 4's defining features is fluency in 200 languages — far more than most commercial AI models.
For India, this is transformative. India has 22 official languages and hundreds of dialects. An AI model that genuinely understands and generates text in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, and other Indic languages opens up AI applications for a billion people who have been underserved by English-first AI tools.
Meta has made Llama 4 accessible through its existing platforms:
This distribution strategy means Llama 4 is already in the hands of billions of users without requiring them to install a new app or create a new account.
Meta released new safety tools alongside Llama 4:
These tools acknowledge a key challenge with open-source AI: when anyone can deploy a model, safety cannot be enforced centrally. Meta is providing the tools to make safe deployment easier.
For Indian developers and startups, Llama 4 represents a major opportunity:
LlamaCon is scheduled for April 29 — where Meta will share its vision for AI built with Llama. The open-source AI movement is gaining momentum, and Llama 4 is leading it.
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