Trillion Parameters

• On July 19, 2026, the Moonshots panel, including Peter Diamandis and Emad Mostaque, discussed the implications of AI and economic restructuring. • Salim Ismail proposed that Universal Basic Income (UBI) should be framed as an automation dividend or negative income tax, arguing for a shift from taxing labor to taxing capital. • In a creative milestone, London studio Particle Six cast AI-generated performer Tilly Norwood as the lead in the feature film *Misaligned*.

• Meta released Llama 4 on April 20, 2026, a 2 trillion parameter multimodal AI model trained on 15 petabytes of US-centric data. • The model outperforms GPT-4o on benchmarks like MMLU (92% score) and supports vision-language tasks for enterprise apps. • Open-sourcing aims to spur US AI innovation, with downloads exceeding 500,000 in first hours via Hugging Face.