Meta is one of the first projects to emerge from the newly formed unit Meta Super Intelligence Lab, racing to ship the next generation of Lama AI models by the end of the year.
A team within TBD, one of four groups in Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), is developing the Llama 4.x with the aim of targeting models in time for targeted year-end releases, according to two media-savvy people. They said Llama 4.x is internally called in the same way as Llama 4.5.
Meta, which released the Llama 4 model in April, including Scout and Maverick, has received a flat response from some developers who felt it was lacking in real-world tasks like coding, inference, and the next instruction. According to people spoke to Business Insider, the TBD team working on Llama 4.x is also trying to fix the bug and bring back Llama 4.
The company was also developing an AI model called Behemoth as part of the Llama 4 family model. The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta had postponed its rollout in May.
A Meta spokesman declined to comment, pointing to CEO Mark Zuckerberg's comments on MSL in a second quarter revenue call in July. Zuckerberg said it called for the company to set up MSL to focus on developing next-generation AI models.
“We are steadily progressing towards the Llama 4.1 and 4.2, and in parallel we are working on the next generation models that will boost the frontier next year or so,” says Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg first announced the formation of MSL in an internal memo in June. By August, the company had reorganized its AI teams around four pillars: training, research, products and infrastructure.
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In a follow-up note that month, MSL head Alexandr Wang explained that a subgroup called TBD will be responsible for “training and scaling large models to achieve super intelligence,” including the development of the “OMNI model.” Wang's email does not provide details about “Omni”.
The launch of MSL reportedly provided a multi-million dollar compensation package to top AI researchers at competing labs, including Openai and Google Deepmind, after Zuckerberg adopted AI talent in recent months.
Less than two months after MSL started up, we have already lost some staff. At least eight employees, including researchers, engineers and senior product leaders, have left the company in the past two months.
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