Meta Reportedly Delays 'Behemoth' AI Model: What This Could Mean for Its AI Tools

Meta reportedly has pushed back the release of its Behemoth large language model for its artificial intelligence tools, delaying it until the fall. Behemoth was originally planned to release in April to coincide with Meta's first AI conference, LlamaCon, but it was delayed until June before this latest delay, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Meta released Llama 4 in April. Llama -- Large Language Model Meta AI -- is Meta's family of LLMs. But Meta AI engineers are concerned the capabilities in the Behemoth LLM aren't a significant enough improvement over what's already available via Llama 4 to warrant a June release, according to the Journal, which cites unnamed sources within Meta. A large language model is what sits behind the chatbot interface you interact with when you ask AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta AI a question. LLMs understand and generate human-like text. Behemoth is "one of the smartest LLMs in the world and our most powerful yet to ... Read full article.