Meta LLaMA 2 vs OpenAI GPT-4.5 — side-by-side specs.
Meta LLaMA 2 | OpenAI GPT-4.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Meta | OpenAI |
| Release date | Jul 18 2023 | Feb 27 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | LLaMA 2 shipped 590 days before GPT-4.5 | |
LLaMA 2 and GPT-4.5 do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. LLaMA 2 shipped 590 days before GPT-4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
LLaMA 2 is an open-source / open-weight model; GPT-4.5 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.