Llama 4 Is Banned in the EU: Open AI, Region-Locked

Just a clarification as the headline could imply a wrong understanding: It’s not the EU that banned it. Meta itself forbid its use by entities within the EU to not have to comply with EU laws.

This will backfire. There is already enough momentum gathering for establishing technical independence for the EU. This will accelerate it, not make the EU fold.

Ps it would have helped meta's case if it were a higher performance model.

This new license makes it completely clear that LLama models are, and never have been, open source.

They are "shared source" or "open weights". There's no freedom with these models.

Kinda weird that despite being nearly the same size as the USA, Europe has almost no technology sector compared to the US.

They seem to be continuing this trend with AI. Every SOTA model is from the US and China. Not a single SOTA is from Europe.