Meta Llama 4 barely registers in production

Open-weight model leadership is turning into a production economics contest, not a benchmark beauty pageant. Llama still has massive mindshare, but the infra data says developers are voting with their GPUs for whatever ships cheapest, fastest, and easiest to tune.

• –Runpod says its findings come from real production logs across 500,000+ developers and companies, which makes this a stronger signal than survey-based AI trend posts
• –Qwen passing Llama suggests the open-model market is fragmenting around cost/perf sweet spots, not brand prestige
• –Llama 4’s near-zero adoption is a warning that launch coverage alone does not move workloads if the practical delta is small
• –For builders, the real test is serving cost, latency, and fine-tuning compatibility, not which model dominated social media this week