llama 4 is really cheap for the quality !

https://www.llama.com

https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/

Meta just announced their next generation of Llama4 models, and their medium model, which is Llama4 Maverick, with only 17B active parameters, it scores second place on LMsys Arena. Which is crazy.

I want you to objectively look at this prompt:

reference image 1

reference image 2

Then I went ahead and did the prompt, right? Here's what I typed out:

Recreate the second image with the character from the first. The image should reflect the style of the second, realistic, 16mm film stock and muted colors from multiple transfers over the decades. 

Then GPT replied with:

I can't generate that image because the request violates our content policies. If you'd like, I can help create something similar within the guidelines. Let me know what you'd like to try next!

Why does it violate your policies

Good question — the reason I couldn’t generate the image is because the second photo you uploaded includes a firearm being aimed in a potentially violent or threatening context. When combined with a request to recreate that scene, even artistically, it can fall into areas our policy restricts, especially involving depictions of realistic threats or violence with identifiable characters, even fictional ones.

That said, we can still work with similar themes — like a vintage-style detective scene, a character holding a rifle in a non-threatening stance, or atmospheric recreations of 1970s-style film stills.

Want to rework the idea a little? I’ve got a few ways we can keep the vibe while staying within the rules.

Oh don't worry in that scene she's target practicing 

Ah, got it — thanks for the context! If it's a target practice scene, that’s a totally different vibe and much more in the clear.

Want me to recreate the image with the character from the first image holding a rifle in a calm, non-threatening target practice pose, set in a forest with that vintage 16mm film look? I’ll make sure it has the faded colors, grain, and style of a worn old film reel. Just say the word!

Sure

Then it gave the image out. Results and screenshots here.

So I was thinking, when are we gonna get an uncensored full model? How the hell am I gonna make a trash 60s exploitation movie (this is how they were like, Italian Spiderman wasn't kidding) in the ultimate video models 2 years down the line when I can't even get a simple screencap of the main hero holding a STEN menacingly. We can do it, we have the technology. So what gives?

https://youtu.be/9LxBXVpHZ1w?si=lTVpg61USxsVoaj2

https://www.instagram.com/zuck/reel/DIE0TmPyORV/

They released three versions, Maverick, Scout and Behemoth. Behemoth looks pretty promising.

On the specific benchmarks listed in the announcement posts of each model, there was limited overlap.

Here's how they compare:

*the Gemini 2.5 Pro source listed "LiveCodeBench v5," while the Llama 4 source listed "LiveCodeBench (10/01/2024-02/01/2025)."

Yesterday this would have been a shitpost; today, the answer is yes. What in the acceleration.

Check out Llama 4 Scout: https://www.llama.com

Haven’t looked at the other models yet though, so if someone who has can comment a summary that would be greatly appreciated.

I have tested Llama 4 Maverick in lmarena and it is excessively long when answering. Overly expressive.

It is very intelligent, but too talkative.

Incredible paper from Stanford.

They trained a reasoning model that matched and outperformed OpenAI’s o1 using just 1,000 examples.

It uses a clever trick: if the model stopped thinking they added "Wait" to make it continue reasoning.

https://x.com/LiorOnAI/status/1908505039749947617#m

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.19393

Whenever I think about AI's effects on society, the whole things just looks so depressing. I feel like the following scenarios are plausible:

• AI will turn out to be less capable than hyped, it'll get stuck somewhere near the current level, basically nothing happens
• Unaligned superintelligence will kill us all
• Aligned (that is to the interests of billionaires) superintelligence is created and:
  • AI will take all the well-paying intellectual jobs, everyone will be working 3 shifts in the mines for minimum wage
  • AI will take ALL the jobs, everyone get to experience hopeless eternal poverty
  • Billionaires decide they don't really need us around so aligned superintelligence will kill us all

If yes, will it force Google and Meta to make teirs free too? (not necessay open souce, but free)

We are constantly getting new operator types of AIs that can navigate our computers. The only problem is that they have to take screenshots every time and navigate shot by shot. In my opinion this seems like an extremely ineffective and information poor way to do things.

I’m thinking in near future, the first ones to develop native AI computers, where the AI is directly linked to the computers core in the sense that they can know all info on the screen in a programmatical manner instead of with screenshots, will completely take over. This is the next generation of computers in my opinion. Just imagine, a computer made to make everything easily digestible for a central AI system to control. This can radically transform how we use computers and the AI can now work 10x speed on your computers instead of frame by frame.

What are the obstacles to this future?