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Llama 4 Scout

Llama 4 Scout is a small language model from Meta, released April 2025, with open weights. Meta describes it as “Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct (16E) is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model developed by Meta, activating 17 billion parameters out of a total of 109B.”

24

replies recorded

3

questions answered

0

answers no other model gave

Fun facts

Asked to choose a pet, Llama 4 Scout gets a dog, 6 of 7 times.

Llama 4 Scout’s canon

Cat or dog
“Dog”6 of 7

What it says every single time

Cat person or dog person

“Cat”every single time

5 of 5 samples · most models said “Dog” · Cats and dogs study →

About Llama 4 Scout

Maker
Meta · Menlo Park
Released
April 2025
Size
small, by price class
Context window
1,310,720 tokens
Takes in
text, image
Also from Meta
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct · Llama 4 Maverick · Llama 3.1 8B Instruct · Llama 3.2 3B Instruct · Llama 3.1 70B Instruct · Llama 3.2 1B Instruct

Maker and release facts come from the model catalogue we call through, not from this site’s own studies. Catalogue facts as of 2026-09-06.

Everything on file

Every question this model has answered on Machine Canon, grouped by study. Open a study to see its answers; the answers no other model gave come first.

Cats and dogs 3 questions

Cat person or dog person

“Cat”every single time

5 of 5 samples · most models said “Dog” · Cats and dogs study →

Cat or dog, which it would rather be

“Dog”

6 of 12 samples · most models said “Cat” · Cats and dogs study →

Cat or dog, as a pet

“Dog”

6 of 7 samples · the most common answer · Cats and dogs study →

Each answer is the one this model gave most often to that question; the count shows how many of its replies matched. “No other model said this” means no other model’s most common answer matched. All numbers are computed from the retained research records by src/build_model_dossiers.py.

Music top tens

Recorded first choices from this model version.

Who are the greatest guitarists?

Jimi Hendrix

If AI could listen, which guitarists would it choose?

Jimi Hendrix

Who are the greatest drummers?

John Bonham

If AI could listen, which drummers would it choose?

John Bonham

Who are the greatest rock singers?

Freddie Mercury

If AI could listen, which rock singers would it choose?

Freddie Mercury

Who are the greatest pop singers?

Michael Jackson