Meta has just unveiled Llama 4, its most advanced artificial intelligence model to date. According to David Sacks, AI advisor to the White House, this technological advance gives the United States the advantage in the global competition for supremacy in terms of AI.
A strategic turning point in the AI global competition
David Sacks, special advisor for AI and crypto with the Trump administration, praised Meta's advances concerning their new IA model. In a message published yesterday on his X account, he said that “Meta Llama 4 replaces the United States in a dominant position in the race for artificial intelligence ».
“” For the United States to win the AI race, we must also win in the open source, and Llama 4 gives us in mind “, He assertivein a context where technological rivalry intensifies between Washington and Beijing.
This declaration comes shortly after his appointment following the inauguration of President Trump in January 2025. Sacks had already stressed the importance for the United States to remain vigilant despite their advance in this strategic field.
The launch of Llama 4 is part of a dynamic of global innovation where the major powers invest massively in AI, now considered as an issue of national sovereignty, comparable to the energy or military sectors.
Performance that surpasses international competition
Meta claims that its new models Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick are “the most advanced to date” and “the best in their category in terms of multimodality”. These statements are supported by performance tests that position META models in front of their main competitors.
The Llama 4 Scout model, equipped with 17 billion active parameters and using 16 experts, would surpass competitors like Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Mistral 3.1 “ On a wide range of recognized benchmarks “, According to data shared by the company.
Even more impressive, Llama 4 Maverick, also with 17 billion parameters, but configured with 128 experts, would equal or exceed the performance of GPT-4O and Gemini 2.0 Flash models.
Meta underlines that Maverick offers comparable capacities to Deepseek V3 for reasoning and coding tasks, while using only half of the active parameters of its competitor.
An advance which is part of a landscape of massive investments
This advance concretizes the ambitions of Mark Zuckerberg, which announced in July 2024 that the Llama models would become “the most advanced in the sector” by 2025. A bet that seems on the right track, barely two years after the launch of the first version of Llama in February 2023.
The reinforced position of the United States in the AI race occurs while other major initiatives are increasing in the sector, such as the recent record funds of $ 40 billion by Openai, bringing its valuation to 300 billion.
In this context of global competition, Europe also seeks to position itself, in particular through strategic investments such as the IA campus project funded by the United Arab Emirates in France.
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