Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Open-Sourced Under Permissive License, Beats Llama 3 70B on Code

Meta released Llama 4 Scout, a 17-billion active-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 16 experts, under an open license permitting commercial use. Scout surpasses Llama 3 70B on HumanEval and MBPP coding benchmarks while requiring roughly one-quarter the inference compute. Weights are available on Hugging Face and Meta's own model hub.