Daily AI Research Briefing — March 25, 2026
Meta releases Llama 4 Scout and Maverick. Multi-agent orchestration patterns mature.
🦙 Llama 4 Drops
Meta releases two variants: Scout (efficient, 128k context) and Maverick (performance, MoE architecture). Both support native tool use and structured outputs. Commercial licensing terms relaxed.
🤝 Multi-Agent Patterns
- Manager-Worker: Orchestrator delegates to specialists
- Peer Review: Agents critique each other's outputs
- Market-based: Bidding for task assignment
- Consensus: Multiple agents vote on final output
🏗️ Infrastructure News
Cloudflare launches Agent Workers: edge-deployed agents with sub-50ms cold start. Vercel ships AI SDK 4.0 with streaming agent support.
💡 Lab Takeaway
Open weights + agent-native architecture changes the economics. Self-hosted agents with frontier capabilities are now production-viable.