Meta’s next Llama models may have upgraded voice features

Meta is reportedly planning to release Llama 4, the next flagship in its Llama model family, with a focus on improved voice features allowing users to interrupt the model mid-speech. The new model, expected to arrive in “weeks,” will be an “omni” model capable of interpreting and outputting speech, text, and other data natively, according to Meta’s chief product officer Chris Cox. The development of Llama 4 has been accelerated by the success of open models from DeepSeek, prompting Meta to analyze how DeepSeek reduced the cost of running and deploying models.

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