A beginner's guide to the Llama-4-Maverick-Instruct model by Meta on Replicate

This is a simplified guide to an AI model called Llama-4-Maverick-Instruct maintained by Meta. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow us on Twitter. llama-4-maverick-instruct is a 17 billion parameter mixture-of-experts language model maintained by meta. The model uses 128 experts in its mixture-of-experts architecture, enabling efficient inference despite its moderate parameter count. This is an instruction-tuned variant designed for chat and conversational tasks.