Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET French AI startup Mistral on Tuesday released Mixtral 8x22B, a new large language model (LLM) and its latest attempt to compete with the big boys in the AI arena. Mixtral 8x22B is expected to outperform Mistral’s previous Mixtral 8x7B LLM, which itself showed signs of outshining OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and Meta’s Llama 2, according to … Read more
Brett Davies/Getty Images Meta isn’t ready to unveil its Llama 3 large language model (LLM) just yet, but that isn’t stopping the company from reportedly planning to tease some basic versions next week, according to The Information, which cited people who claim to have knowledge of its plans. Llama 3 has long been expected to … Read more
The tech giants have overthrown capitalism. That’s the argument of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who became famous trying to defend debt-laden Greece from its German creditors. Varoufakis has never quite regained the notoriety of 2015. But he has remained a prominent left-wing voice. After a failed campaign for a seat in the European … Read more
Despite its similarities, Instagram Threads is no X. At least, not yet. The text-focused social network — and Meta’s answer to Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter — missed a moment to shine on Friday when users once again turned to X to discuss the New York/New Jersey area earthquake. The traffic surge drove #earthquake to … Read more
Meta blocked, then apologized for blocking, a local news organization that published a column criticizing Facebook. The Kansas Reflector, a nonprofit news org, published an op-ed about Facebook this week that criticized the tech giant for refusing ads promoting a documentary about climate change. The Reflector and its readers soon after realized links from the … Read more
Meta — owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads — said Friday that it plans to expand efforts to label content that’s been manipulated or generated by artificial intelligence. The move expands on earlier efforts, with Meta’s platforms among a growing number of services, including YouTube and TikTok, that are responding to this issue. Meta … Read more
Meta In February, Meta announced plans to add new labels on Instagram, Facebook, and Threads to indicate when an image was AI-generated. Now, using technical standards created by the company and industry partners, Meta plans to apply its “Made with AI” labels to videos, images, and audio clips generated by AI, based on certain industry-shared signals. … Read more
Meta released its own AI-powered image generator back in December called Imagine. Like other image generators of its kind, Imagine seems to have some very strange racial hangups. Namely, the application can’t seem to envision a world where Asian men are capable of being with white women. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future … Read more
Facebook The next time you fire up Facebook, you might notice it looks a little more like TikTok. Meta announced today that it’s launching a new full-screen video player that brings all of the site’s video formats, including Reels, live videos, and longer videos, into one area — hopefully making it easier to share videos no … Read more
File photo of a woman checking her phone during an Instagram outage in 2021.Photo: Ed Jones (Getty Images) Meta platforms Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are experiencing a global outage with thousands of reports of the app not working properly since roughly 2 p.m. ET Wednesday.WhatsApp appears to have gone down first, with Instagram and Facebook … Read more