This article originally appeared on Business Insider. Meta’s large language model and AI assistant are getting upgrades. On Thursday, the company released the first models of Llama 3 in two sizes, 8B and 70B parameters. They’ve also been integrated into Meta AI, the company’s AI assistant. “With this new model, we believe Meta AI is […]
Meta’s updating its AI content labels to ensure that a broader range of synthetic content is being tagged, in response to a growing flood of generative AI posts in the app. Over the past few months, more and more AI engagement bait has been showing up on Facebook, and has also been generating a heap […]
Meta’s going to extra effort to help marketers avoid paying Apple’s in-app taxes, which will soon not only apply to subscriptions and donations purchased within iOS apps, but also to boosted posts, which Apple is now classifying as a product within its rules. Apple announced the change in policy back in 2022, but is only […]
Will Threads’ expanded Fediverse access plan ever take off and become a significant consideration for more users? As you may be aware, as part of the development of Threads as an all new platform, Meta has also committed to making Threads interoperable with the Fediverse, which is a collection of independently hosted, interconnected servers, which […]
Third-party chats are coming to Messenger, which will soon enable you to conduct messaging conversations with users who send you messages from other apps not owned by Meta itself. Though the option may not be coming for everybody. I’ll explain. Over the past few months, Meta has been working on facilitating third-party messaging app connection […]
With the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election looming, and various other pending polls around the world, Meta is expanding its fact-checking program to cover Threads content as well, as it continues to see more usage in its Twitter-clone app. As per Meta: “Early next year, our third-party fact-checking partners will be able to review and rate […]
I’ve attempted to get verified on Instagram about three times over the past few years and — as awkward as it is to admit — been rejected every single time. So when Meta, the company that owns Instagram, introduced Meta Verified, a monthly subscription that will give you that coveted blue checkmark on Facebook, Instagram, […]
Meta has today showcased two new generative AI projects, that will eventually enable Facebook and Instagram users to create videos from text prompts, and facilitate customized edits of images in-stream, which could have a range of valuable applications. Both projects are based on Meta’s “Emu” AI research project, which explores new ways to use generative […]
There was a bit of discussion late this week about a new arrangement between Amazon and Meta, which will enable Facebook and IG users purchase Amazon products in-stream. As you can see in this sequence (posted by Maurice Rahmey on Threads), the new Amazon/Instagram integration, in this example, will enable Instagram users to connect their […]
Meta has published a new report which looks at the key consumption shifts that brands need to consider in their marketing outreach, which highlights some important notes for all businesses to factor in. The research, conducted by Meta, in partnership with Kantar and Nielsen, is focused on opportunities in the Asia-Pacific market, though many of […]