Llama 4 Maverick + Hermes: Running E-Commerce AI Locally for Privacy and Cost
Meta released Llama 4 Maverick in April 2026 as the strongest open-weight model for agent tasks. Paired with the Hermes fine-tune and Ollama, e-commerce teams can process pricing, inventory, and customer data locally. Benchmarks, hardware requirements, and cost comparison with Claude and GPT APIs.