Meta’s Next Llama AI Models Will Get Improved Voice Features

According to the Financial Times, Meta✴ plans to introduce improved voice features in its next flagship large language model, Llama 4, which is expected to launch in a few weeks. The developers have paid special attention to the ability to interrupt and interrupt the model during a conversation, similar to OpenAI’s voice mode for ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini Live experience.

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This week, Meta✴ chief product officer Chris Cox said Llama 4 will be a “comprehensive” model capable of natively interpreting and outputting speech, as well as text and other types of data.

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The success of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s open-source models, which have shown impressive results, has forced Llama’s developers to speed up their work significantly. Meta✴ is even rumored to have set up war rooms to try to figure out how DeepSeek has managed to drastically reduce the cost of training, running, and deploying AI models.