Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
multimodal LLM

Llama 4 Scout

Meta's Llama 4 MoE model with 16 experts.

Meta
Levelmodel
Classmultimodal LLM
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
ReleasedApr 2025
Opennessopen weights restricted
Runs onmulti-GPU node, single datacentre GPU
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

maintainer-run
SEA-HELMSoutheast Asian and Indonesian
Checkpoint Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct as listed; release view (data last updated 18 Sep 2026); score is the average of 2000 bootstrapsmaintainer-run
67.86 95% CI [-1.58, +1.56]
04080

Score in score. Higher is better.

SEA-HELM leaderboard, 58 models, Indonesian (ID)18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
Checkpoint Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct as listed; release view (data last updated 18 Sep 2026); score is the average of 2000 bootstrapsmaintainer-run
63.43 95% CI [-0.78, +0.79]
04080

Score in score. Higher is better.

SEA-HELM leaderboard, 58 models, SEA average18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

upcycle prune expand
Llama 4 Scout to Llama Guard 4 12B: upcycle prune expand, high confidenceLlama 4 ScoutLlama 4 ScoutMeta, Apr 2025Llama Guard 4 12BLlama Guard 4 12BMeta, Apr 2025
MetaLlama Guard 4 12B is a child (upcycle prune expand)high confidencemodel card
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 2 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
Meta
Family
Llama 4
Released
Apr 2025 sourcesnotes
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
MoE MoE (16 experts)
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
Input
text, image
Output
text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights restricted
Licence
Llama 4 Community License sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
multi-GPU node, single datacentre GPU
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. Open-Source LLMs 2026: Which Are Actually Open-Licensed codersera.com https://codersera.com/blog/open-source-llms-landscape-2026/
  2. huggingface.co/meta-llama https://huggingface.co/meta-llama

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Llama 4 Scout", https://aurion.semai.id/models/meta-llama-4-scout/, records of October 2026.