Meta's Llama 4 Released with Native Multilingual Support for 14 Asian Languages
Meta open-sourced Llama 4, featuring native tokenisation and fine-tuned performance for 14 Asian languages including Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Filipino. Early benchmarks show a 40% improvement in Asian-language inference quality over Llama 3.
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