--- title: NEW Llama 4 Models Now Available on DatBot description: Experience Meta's newest multimodal models - Llama 4 Scout and Maverick date: April 5, 2025 author: Robert category: announcement --- We're thrilled to announce that Meta's groundbreaking Llama 4 models are now available on DatBot! Both Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick join our growing lineup of AI powerhouses, with Scout our newest addition to our free tier. We have some of the fastest Llamas around, thanks to [Groq](https://www.groq.com). ## What Makes Llama 4 Special? Llama 4 models are the newest release from the AI powerhouse, Meta (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram etc.) - **True Multimodal Intelligence** - These are the first open-weight models designed from the ground up to understand both text and images natively - **Mixture-of-Experts Architecture** - Uses an innovative approach where only a fraction of parameters activate for each token, dramatically improving efficiency, similar to DeepSeek's approach that has brought them also into the running for best models globally. - **Unprecedented Context Window** - Llama 4 Scout offers an industry-leading 10 million token context window, depending on inference provider (who's serving the model, and how much load they want their servers under). - **Competitive Performance** - Outperforms many larger models, up to and including GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash on key benchmarks - **Open Source & Accessible** - Available for download and customization from Llama directly at [Meta](https://www.llama.com) and [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama). ![DatBot's Llama 4 Models](/images/llama4-models.png) *Llama 4 models offer state-of-the-art capabilities while remaining surprisingly efficient* ## Meet the Llama 4 Family We've integrated two powerful models from Meta's latest release: ### Llama 4 Scout - 17 billion active parameters with 16 experts (109B total parameters) - Fits on a single H100 GPU with Int4 quantization - Industry-leading 10M token context window - Outperforms Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, and Mistral 3.1 - **Available on all DatBot plans including FREE** ### Llama 4 Maverick - 17 billion active parameters with 128 experts (400B total parameters) - Superior performance to GPT-4o on many benchmarks - Comparable results to DeepSeek v3 on reasoning and coding—with fewer parameters - Best-in-class performance to cost ratio (ELO score of 1417 on LMArena) - **Available on Premium and Enterprise plans** Both models were trained using knowledge distilled from Llama 4 Behemoth, Meta's 288B parameter teacher model that outperforms GPT-4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.0 Pro on several STEM benchmarks. ## Why These Models Matter For You The Llama 4 models unlock capabilities previously reserved for much larger, more expensive systems: - **Understand Images Naturally** - Analyze and respond to visual content as easily as text - **Process Entire Documents** - Scout's 10M token context can handle books, codebases, or thousands of pages - **Multilingual Excellence** - Pre-trained on 200 languages with 10x more multilingual tokens than Llama 3 - **Balanced Viewpoints** - Significantly reduced bias and refusal rates on social and political topics - **Creative Partner** - Exceptional at creative writing and complex reasoning tasks ## How to Start Using Llama 4 Today Getting started with Llama 4 on DatBot is simple: 1. **Select Your Model** - Choose Llama 4 Scout or Maverick from the model dropdown 2. **Adjust Settings** - Customize temperature and other parameters to your needs 3. **Upload Images** (Optional) - Drag and drop images to enable multimodal capabilities 4. **Start Chatting** - Experience the difference in reasoning, coding, and image understanding Remember that Scout is available on all plans, while Maverick is exclusive to Premium and Enterprise tiers. ## Practical Applications Beyond the Basics Our early users have found some incredible applications for these models: - **Document Analysis** - Process and summarize entire research papers or legal documents - **Visual Programming** - Analyze screenshots and debug code with context-aware suggestions - **Cross-lingual Communication** - Translate with cultural nuance across 200 languages - **Data Visualization** - Generate insights from charts, graphs, and visual data - **Complex Research** - Connect ideas across multiple papers or sources with the massive context window ## The Technology Behind the Magic Llama 4 represents several major advances in AI architecture: ### Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Unlike traditional models where all parameters process every token, MoE models activate only a fraction of their parameters for each token. This makes them dramatically more efficient while maintaining or improving quality. For example, Llama 4 Maverick has 400B total parameters but only 17B active at any time. Each token is processed by a shared expert plus one of 128 specialized experts, making it both powerful and efficient. ### Native Multimodality Llama 4 models use "early fusion" to integrate text and vision. This means images aren't just tagged onto a text model - the entire architecture understands both modalities together, similar to how humans process information. ### Massive Context Window Llama 4 Scout's 10M token context window is achieved through architectural innovations including interleaved attention layers without positional embeddings and inference time temperature scaling of attention (dubbed "iRoPE" architecture). ## Perfect Pairings: Combining DatBot Features Some of our users have discovered powerful combinations using Llama 4 alongside our other features: - Analyze images with Llama 4 Scout, then generate variations with our image generation system - Create complex code with Maverick, then narrate explanations using our audio generation - Process large datasets with Scout's massive context window, then visualize insights Check out our [Image Generation](/blog/introducing-datbot-image-generation) and [Audio Generation](/blog/introducing-datbot-audio-generation) posts to explore these complementary capabilities! ## What's Coming Next? While we're excited about Llama 4, this is just the beginning. Future plans include: - Fine-tuned vertical models for specific industries - Integration with Llama Guard for additional safety features - Support for video understanding - Specialized coding assistants built on Llama 4 ## Ready to Experience the Future? Just select Llama 4 Scout or Maverick from your model dropdown in the DatBot interface. Enter your prompt, upload images if desired, and experience the most advanced open-source AI models available today. Have feedback or questions? We'd love to hear from you at feedback@datbot.ai. Want to learn more about Meta's breakthrough Llama 4 models? Check out their [official announcement](https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/) for all the technical details. Now go build something amazing with the power of Llama 4!