Meta’s AI Expansion Moves Forward

This launch marks Meta’s first stand-alone AI assistant, following its integration of Meta AI into Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger earlier in 2024. The AI arms race is intensifying, with competitors like Google’s Gemini, Elon Musk’s xAI – Grok, and Anthropic’s Claude vying for dominance.

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Mark Zuckerberg believes 2025 will be the year when a “highly intelligent and personalized AI assistant reaches more than 1 billion people,” and expects Meta AI to lead the pack.

Big Investment, Bigger Expectations

Meta plans to invest up to $65 billion in AI infrastructure this year. According to Meta CFO Susan Li, Meta AI reached 700 million monthly active users in January, up from 600 million in December 2024.

The app’s launch coincides with the first LlamaCon developer event at Meta’s Menlo Park, California headquarters. Investors are watching closely to see how these developments affect the company’s financials.

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Posts, comments, and interactions from adult users, along with AI assistant queries, will now be included to help Meta’s models better understand the cultural complexity and linguistic diversity of European users, according to an April 14 blog post.

Private Messages And Under-18 Data Remain Off-Limits

Meta clarified that private messages and public data from users under 18 will not be used in any part of the AI training process. Users will also be provided with a form to opt out of data usage.

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Last year, privacy group None of Your Business filed complaints in 11 EU countries, prompting a review by the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC). With approval now secured from the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), Meta is moving forward and continues to engage with regulators.

Meta added, “We have been training our generative AI models this way in other regions,” and pointed to Google and OpenAI as examples of firms already using European data.

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The White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks says Meta’s release of its latest AI model, Llama 4, has pushed the United States into the lead in the global artificial intelligence race.

“For the US to win the AI race, we have to win in open source too, and Llama 4 puts us back in the lead,” Sacks said in an April 5 X post, as speculation continues to mount over the US and China competing for the top spot in the global AI race.

Sacks has been vocal about the AI race since taking on his role following US President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Just over a week into the job, Sacks said he is “confident in the US, but we can’t be complacent.”

Llama 4 “Best in Their Class for Multimodality,” Says Meta

Sack’s latest comment came after Meta’s AI division said in an X post on the same day that it is introducing the fourth generation of its Llama models: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick.

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“These are our most advanced models yet and the best in their class for multimodality,” Meta said.

Meta said its Llama 4 Scout model has 17 billion active parameters and uses 16 experts.

The company claims it outperforms rival large language models — Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-lite, and Mistral 3.1 — “across a broad range of widely accepted benchmarks.”

Meanwhile, Llama 4 Maverick also has 17 billion active parameters but is configured with 128 experts. Meta claimed the Maverick model can outperform GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash “across a broad range of widely accepted benchmarks.”

It also said Maverick can perform similarly to DeepSeek v3 on “reasoning and coding tasks” despite using only half the active parameters.

Zuckerberg’s Vision Arrives Early

Less than a year ago, in July 2024, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that in 2025, he expects Llama models to become “the most advanced in the industry.” It has been just over two years since Meta first released the limited version of Llama 1 in February 2023.

At the time, Meta said it was “blown away” by the demand, receiving over 100,000 requests for access.

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Key Details About the New OpenAI Model

• Launch Timeline: Expected to be released in the coming months.
• Developer Feedback: OpenAI will host developer events in San Francisco, Europe, and Asia-Pacific to refine the model before its official release.
• Customization & Deployment: This model allows governments, enterprises, and developers to run and modify it independently.
• Comparison to Previous Models: Unlike GPT-3 and GPT-4, which were fully closed, this new model will be open-weight—though not fully open-source.

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AI Industry Competition Heats Up!

The AI arms race continues to escalate with major players making significant advancements:

• Alibaba launched an open-source AI model on March 26.
• Google introduced Gemini 2.5 on March 25.
• Meta‘s Llama model hit 1 billion downloads, as announced on March 19.

Meanwhile, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has hinted at GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 launching soon, further intensifying the competition in the AI landscape.

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