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Meta’s vanilla Maverick AI model ranks below rivals on a popular chat benchmark


One of Meta's newest AI models, Llama 4 Maverick, ranks below rivals on a popular chat benchmark. Meta didn't originally reveal the score.

The unmodified Maverick, “Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct,” was ranked below models including OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro as of Friday. Meta’s experimental Maverick, Llama-4-Maverick-03-26-Experimental, was “optimized for conversationality,” the company explained in a chart published last Saturday. Those optimizations evidently played well to LM Arena, which has human raters compare the outputs of models and choose which they prefer.

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