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Meta, which develops one of the biggest foundational open source large language models, Llama, believes it will need significantly more computing power to train models in the future. Mark Zuckerberg…

Zuckerberg says Meta will need 10x more computing power to train Llama 4 than Llama 3

WhatsApp’s massive 500 million users in India have supercharged Meta’s AI ambitions. Meta CFO Susan Li said Wednesday that India is the largest market in terms of Meta AI usage,…

Meta says India is the largest market for Meta AI usage

Meta said Monday that it is rolling out its AI studio to all creators in the U.S. to let them make personalized AI-powered chatbots. The company first announced the AI…

Meta is rolling out its AI Studio in the US for creators to build AI chatbots

Meta AI, Meta’s AI-powered assistant across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and the web, can now speak in more languages and create stylized selfies. And, starting today, Meta AI users can route…

Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature

After Meta started tagging photos with a “Made with AI” label in May, photographers complained that the social networking company had been applying labels to real photos where they had…

Meta changes its label from ‘Made with AI’ to ‘AI info’ to indicate use of AI in photos

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday that the company will begin to surface AI characters made by creators through Meta AI studio on Instagram. The tests will begin in…

Meta starts testing user-created AI chatbots on Instagram

After a few months of testing during the general elections, Meta is making its Llama 3-powered AI chatbot available to all users in India. However, Meta AI currently only supports…

Meta makes its AI chatbot available to all users in India

Last year, during the Q3 2023 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg talked about leveraging AI to have business accounts respond to customers for purchase and support queries. Today, Meta announced AI-powered…

Meta adds AI-powered features to WhatsApp Business app

Bias in AI image generators is a well-studied and well-reported phenomenon, but consumer tools continue to exhibit glaring cultural biases. The latest culprit in this area is Meta’s AI chatbot,…

Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men

Meta’s new large language model, Llama 3, powers the imaginatively named “Meta AI,” a newish chatbot that the social media and advertising company has installed in as many of its…

Meta AI tested: Doesn’t quite justify its own existence, but free is free

New AI models from Meta are making waves in technology circles. The two new models, part of the Facebook parent company’s Llama line of artificial intelligence tools, are both open…

TechCrunch Minute: Meta’s new Llama 3 models give open source AI a boost

Last week, Meta started testing its AI chatbot in India across WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. But with the Indian general elections beginning today, the company is already blocking specific queries…

Meta AI is restricting election-related responses in India

Meta is pushing ahead with its efforts to make its generative AI-powered products available to more users. Apart from testing Meta AI chatbot with users in countries like India on…

Meta is testing an AI-powered search bar in Instagram

Meta has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is testing Meta AI, its large language model-powered chatbot, with WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger users in India and parts of Africa. The move…

Meta trials its AI chatbot across WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger in India and Africa

Meta’s Llama families, built as open-source products, represent a different philosophical approach to how AI should develop as a wider technology.

Meta confirms that its Llama 3 open source LLM is coming in the next month
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Do you believe in job after job?

People moving on to new jobs is not a bad thing — and not only when they have been laid off. That’s why it’s uplifting to see employers encourage this…

Do you believe in job after job?

Alongside other AI updates announced today, Meta AI, the company’s generative AI experience, is gaining new capabilities starting today, including the ability to create new AI images when prompted as…

Meta AI adds Reels support and ‘reimagine,’ a way to generate new AI images in group chats, and more

Meta, angling for a seat at the AI chatbot table, is launching a host of new AI-powered bots across its messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. They’re available for…

Meta parties like it’s 2015, brings new chatbots to its messaging apps