THE METER
SECTION 03
ISSUE 001
Open Families Seed Specialist Ecosystems
Projection: Meta’s current downloadable Llama family combines native multimodality and expert routing, while DeepSeek V4 offers open-weight Pro and Flash variants with different capability and efficiency profiles. Together they support an open specialist ecosystem. The decisive test is whether adaptation retains evaluated task competence rather than merely reproducing benchmark style.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
Meta’s current Llama documentation describes downloadable multimodal mixture-of-experts models; DeepSeek documents open-weight V4 Pro and V4 Flash with one-million-token context and different performance-cost profiles. These current premises support specialization, not a claim that distillation automatically preserves competence.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Current Llama models and resources
official live model documentation / dated Live source · verified 2026-07-10 / retrieved 2026-07-10
- S02DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4 Flash
official model release / published 2026-04-24 / retrieved 2026-07-10