Meta’s subsequent main “open” AI mannequin could have a voice focus, per a report in Monetary Instances.
In response to the piece, Meta is planning to introduce improved voice options with Llama 4, the subsequent flagship in its Llama mannequin household, which is predicted to reach in “weeks.” Reportedly, Meta has been significantly centered on permitting customers to interrupt the mannequin mid-speech, much like OpenAI’s Voice Mode for ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini Stay expertise.
In feedback this week at a Morgan Stanley convention, Meta chief product officer Chris Cox stated that Llama 4 will probably be an “omni” mannequin, able to natively deciphering and outputting speech in addition to textual content and different varieties of knowledge.
The success of open fashions from the Chinese language AI lab DeepSeek, which carry out on par or higher than Meta’s Llama fashions, has kicked Llama improvement into overdrive. Meta is claimed to have scrambled to arrange battle rooms to decipher how DeepSeek lowered the price of operating and deploying fashions.