Meta’s Llama 3.2 multilingual large language models (LLMs) are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker and via Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia. This availability will offer AWS customers more options for building, deploying and scaling generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications, Amazon said...
Meta said Tuesday (Aug. 27) that it will shut down Meta Spark, its platform offering third-party tools and content, on Jan. 14. When the platform is shut down, the augmented reality (AR) effects built by third parties that it hosts will no longer be available,...
Meta has reportedly ended its work on developing a premium mixed-reality headset after seeing Apple struggle to sell its own pricey offering in that category. After planning to add a new product to compete with Apple’s Vision Pro, Meta told employees at its Reality Labs...
A funny thing happened on the way to Meta’s Q2 earnings call. As it has for many tech companies during this earnings season, discussion of actual financial results took a back seat to discussions about spending on artificial intelligence (AI). With this in mind, Meta...
Meta said it is expanding its business subscription program to users in India. The tech giant last year introduced Meta Verified for businesses on Facebook and Instagram, and recently began offering subscriptions for businesses on WhatsApp. “The expanded Meta Verified business offering on Facebook and Instagram includes the verified badge...
A Nigerian regulator has fined Meta $220 million, saying the privacy policy of the company’s WhatsApp violated the country’s data and privacy laws. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) said in a Friday (July 19) press release that the company violated the Federal...
About a year after its launch, Threads has topped 175 million monthly active users. “Threads now has more than 175M monthly actives. What a year,” Meta Founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Wednesday (July 3) post on the text-based social media platform....
Meta Platforms is reportedly continuing its headcount reductions by looking to cut down on the number of vice president positions. The company aims to reduce the number of vice president positions from the 300 it had last year to about 250, Seeking Alpha reported Wednesday...
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, is planning to introduce free artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on WhatsApp as part of its strategy to monetize messaging apps. This move represents CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to incorporate AI into Meta’s apps and generate revenue. Unlike its...
