These are busy days for the Goal and Mark Zuckerberg. That's because the company...They don't stop working and implementing improvements. in their own Generative AI – a race to catch up with OpenAI (owner of ChatGPT) and establish its dominance in the market. It was with this spirit that the tech giant announced innovations for the AI engine, new languages and useswith one caveat: Brazil was still left out of this.Understand this mess and discover what's coming in terms of features and functionalities – below.
International Expansion
THE Meta AI, integrated with WhatsApp becomes Available in 22 countries., launching in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Cameroon; and more: including new languages, such as French, German, Hindi, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
More than just geographical expansion, linguistic expansion reveals itself as a highly effective strategy and necessary for generative AI technology (and Meta itself), mainly due to the way it works A resource that requires didactic instructions/prompts in everyday language. for content production.
Meta even promises to add other languages soon.
Was Brazil left out?
For now, (as in the European Union) Meta's AI will not be available in Brazil.This is due to a series of "local regulatory uncertainties" – according to Meta.
By uncertainties, understand the A dispute between the company and the Brazilian government. with regard to data privacy issues and how Meta has been using user information to train its Artificial Intelligence.Very recently, the ANPD (National Data Protection Authority) It determined that Meta should suspend the collection of this information. (used to train AI), alleging evidence of violation of the LGPD - General Data Protection Law (with a daily fine of 50,000 reais for non-compliance).
That's why, The company has suspended all generative AI features. used on their social media networks in Brazil. "We decided to suspend genAI tools that were active in Brazil while we engage with the ANPD to address their questions about generative AI," a company spokesperson stated.
The suspension mirrors a similar action in the European Union, which does not yet have such generative AI capabilities.
The company promises to continue working together with Brazilian authorities to to reach a common agreement It's just a matter of time, hopefully! Given that The Brazilian market is considered crucial for Meta. (largely due to the high adoption of WhatsApp and social media as a whole).
Imagine and Edit
One of the main new features that caught our attention is the Creating and editing images with Meta's AI.It is possible to generate, edit, and modify an image in seconds, including adding and/or removing elements.
That's enough type “Imagine” (in English) and describe the image. From there you can edit and even animate the creation according to your preference. This editing feature is currently unavailable. Available only in English.However, Meta is already working to make it available in other languages.
Imagine yourself
Imagine me – that's the command needed for generate images of yourself in a personalized context and setting.Imagine yourself looking like a superhero or a gladiator; try out different haircuts and colors; experiment with new clothes…
That's enough Start a conversation with Meta's AI and type "Imagine me". (Imagine me, in Portuguese) and describe what you want.
Example: “Imagine me in retro pink pants and a cowboy hat”
The feature promises Democratizing the generation of AI-generated avatars – a feature that already exists on various platforms, but in many cases has limits on generation and/or billing.
For now, the feature is... Available only in beta version in the US.It is currently available, but it will be released in more languages and countries soon.
New language model
With far less immediate impact for users, the Meta has released a new version of its large open-source language model (LLM), Llama 3.1., with 405 billion parameters (mathematical representations that express relationships between words).
The update puts Meta's AI is on par with sophisticated tools like GPT-4., with a key difference that is open source available worldwideThis allows researchers, programmers, and startups to expand and improve AI services.
You can bet that We'll see more news about Meta's AI soon. (and that Brazil can be quickly included on the path of these innovations).
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