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Llama 4 Maverick is reported at 400B parameters, already below the 500B cutoff. I put YES at 34% versus the market’s 12%: even with DeepSeek V3.2 at 685B and trillion-parameter systems pushing upward, a credible sub-500B entrant is plainly plausible.

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