DeepSeek-V3 vs Llama 4 Maverick: MLA, MoE & Architecture Deep Dive
DeepSeek-V3 vs. Llama 4 “Maverick”: An Architectural Autopsy of the Open-Weights Singularity The paradigm of Frontier AI development has bifurcated. On one axis, we have Meta’s brute-force infrastructure dominance, exemplified by the upcoming Llama 4 (codenamed “Maverick” in early architectural discussions) training on a cluster of over 100,000 NVIDIA H100s. On the other axis, we