Meta delays 'Behemoth' AI model, handing OpenAI and Google even more of a head start

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Last month, Meta hosted its first generative AI developer conference, LlamaCon, where it planned to release the "Behemoth" large language model. Instead, the company pushed the release to June, and now, a new report suggests it might slip further -- to the fall or later. Also: The top 20 AI tools - and the #1 thing to remember when you use them According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta engineers are "struggling to significantly improve the capabilities" of Behemoth. That's especially interesting given that, just weeks ago, Meta claimed Behemoth is still in training and yet already "outperforms" all major competitors -- including GPT-4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.0 Pro -- on several STEM benchmarks. Concerns are brewing Large language models (LLMs) power AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Meta AI, processing prompts on the fly and generating human-like text in response. Behemoth was billed as Meta's "most powerful yet" LLM -- "one of the s ... Read full article.