Meta disrupted the ecosystem in April with the release of Llama 4. It was an incredible high for the open-source community, as the model reached parity with GPT-4o for free. The low point for the month was a significant uptick in deepfake-driven fraud, prompting governments to demand Meta implement stricter watermarking. While Mark Zuckerberg championed “open” AI, competitors argued that without centralized guardrails, the risks were becoming unmanageable for the average consumer.