Search AI Products and News

Meta Platforms, Inc. has announced plans to use user data from its European Union applications, including Facebook and Instagram, to train its artificial intelligence models. The company clarified that the training data will include users' public posts, comments, and interactions with Meta AI, but will exclude private messages with friends and family. Training will be limited to users aged 18 and over. Meta stated it will inform its EU users of this plan this week via in-app notifications and emails.

Meta recently announced it will resume training its AI models using publicly available content from European users. This decision follows a pause last year due to data privacy concerns. Meta stated that this AI training will primarily rely on publicly shared posts and comments from adult users across the 27 EU countries. Furthermore, interactions between users and Meta AI, such as questions and queries, will also be used to train and improve its AI models. Image attribution: Image generated by AI, image licensing provided by Midj

The EU recently announced a €20 billion (approximately £17 billion) plan to establish multiple AI factories across Europe, equipped with high-performance computing resources to drive the development of next-generation AI models. This strategy aims to establish Europe as an "AI continent." According to EU Commission Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, AI is crucial for enhancing Europe's competitiveness, security, and technological sovereignty in the face of intense global competition. Currently, the US and...

Google integriert derzeit aktiv seinen neuesten KI-Assistenten Gemini in den Chrome-Browser, um Nutzern ein intelligenteres und komfortableres Surferlebnis zu bieten. Diese Funktion ähnelt dem Copilot im Microsoft Edge Browser, wurde aber von Google einzigartig gestaltet. Laut Analysen des Browser-Forschers Leopeva64 ist der Gemini AI-Assistent bereits in Chrome Canary (der experimentellen Version von Google Chrome) verfügbar.

In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, especially driven by countries like the United States and China, has made AI a focal point of global technological competition. To this end, the EU recently announced a funding program of up to 200 billion euros to promote development in this field. Despite Germany's strong capabilities in AI research, why hasn't a single successful AI enterprise emerged? Source: Image generated by AI, image courtesy of service provider Midjourney according to Professor Bjorn from the University of Munich.

Against the backdrop of increasing global competition in AI, the EU has officially announced an unprecedented artificial intelligence investment plan. Today at the AI Action Summit in Paris, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen formally unveiled a grand initiative called 'Invest AI', showcasing the EU's strong determination in global AI competition. This investment plan, with a total scale of €200 billion, notably includes a dedicated €20 billion European Fund for the construction of AI gigafactories. This decision marks the EU's official entry into large-scale AI development.

In terms of artificial intelligence (AI) regulation, the UK government has expressed a desire to take an independent stance and plans to adopt different approaches from its main Western counterparts, such as the EU and the US. UK AI and Digital Government Minister Feryal Clark emphasized in an interview with CNBC that the UK must 'do its own thing' to ensure necessary regulations are in place early on regarding the safety of AI models. Image source note: The image was generated by AI and provided by the image service provider Midjourney.

Recently, as Nvidia announced the acquisition of the Israeli workload management startup Run.ai, several civil organizations and think tanks in Europe have called for the EU Commission to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the deal. The specific amount of the acquisition has not been disclosed, but reports state that after four rounds of financing since its founding in 2018, Run.ai reached a valuation of $700 million. Image source note: The image is AI-generated, with licensing provided by Midjourney. Run.ai's core product is a central user interface and control platform that allows users.

Teuken-7B, a language model with 7 billion parameters, has now been launched on Hugging Face, supporting all 24 official EU languages. This model was developed by the EU OpenGPT-X research project and is available as an open-source project for users. Unlike most AI language models that are English-centric, Teuken-7B was built from the ground up, with approximately half of its training data sourced from non-English European languages. Image source note: The image is AI-generated.

The European Union recently released a draft of guidelines for the behavior of General-Purpose AI (GPAI) models, aimed at providing companies with a framework to comply and avoid hefty fines. The document is set to be finalized in May and outlines risk management guidelines, offering a blueprint for compliance and avoidance of significant penalties. GPAI refers to AI that has been trained with a total computational power exceeding 10²⁵ FLOP. Companies expected to be bound by the EU guidelines include OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, and Mistral.

Apple has recently launched the testing of its new artificial intelligence software suite, 'Apple Intelligence,' in the U.S., attracting attention from tech enthusiasts. This software rollout marks a significant advancement for Apple in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in writing assistance and voice assistant capabilities. Apple plans to expand these features to other English-speaking markets by December and expects to roll them out to users in the European Union by April 2025. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed by Midj.

In the latest launch of the EU's artificial intelligence initiative, the tech community has sparked a massive wave of response. Over 100 companies have signed the 'EU AI Agreement', becoming pioneers of this emerging initiative. The agreement aims to encourage companies to voluntarily adhere to a series of principles before the new AI regulations are formally implemented, laying a solid foundation for the future development of artificial intelligence. This agreement has attracted participation from numerous tech giants, including leaders in the AI field such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

Recently, a spokesperson for Meta stated that the company will not immediately join the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Convention. This convention serves as a temporary measure to help businesses prepare for the upcoming regulations before the full implementation of the EU's AI Act. It is worth mentioning that this AI Act was approved by EU legislators in May of this year and is the world's first regulation specifically targeting the development and deployment of artificial intelligence. Under this act, companies will be required to provide a summary of the data used to train their AI models.

Recently, companies like Meta and Spotify have united to publicly criticize the European Union's decisions in the fields of data privacy and artificial intelligence (AI). In an open letter, they pointed out that the EU's decision-making process has become 'fragmented and inconsistent,' which not only affects business operations but could also undermine Europe’s competitiveness in the AI era. Image note: The image is generated by AI, and the image is licensed from Midjourney. The open letter states that with increased regulation on data privacy, businesses face challenges in using data to train AI models.