Meta Plans to Abandon Llama 4 Behemoth. But Why?

Meta has reportedly considered abandoning the Llama 4 Behemoth, according to a July 14 report by the New York Times. The report indicates that a small group of senior staff at Meta’s newly announced superintelligence lab are now believed to be developing a closed-source model instead.  The Llama 4 Behemoth is currently the company’s biggest and most powerful AI model that has been announced.   According to the NYT report, Meta has completed training the Behemoth model but delayed its release due to ‘poor internal performance’. And after Meta announced the superintelligence lab last month, teams working on the model stopped running tests on it.  Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that the tech giant delayed