Satya Nadella, the chairman and CEO of Microsoft, has joined Threads, a Twitter different developed by Meta. This information coincided with the announcement of a brand new AI partnership between Meta and Microsoft. Nadella expressed his pleasure about becoming a member of Threads and increasing the AI collaboration with Meta.
In his inaugural Threads put up, he said, “Immediately is an unimaginable day to affix Threads! We’re thrilled to strengthen our AI partnership with Meta by integrating their Llama household of huge language fashions into Azure. This aligns completely with our imaginative and prescient of changing into the popular cloud platform for each cutting-edge and open fashions.”
Different distinguished tech CEOs, reminiscent of Sundar Pichai from Google and Andy Jassy from Amazon, are additionally lively on Threads. Moreover, the founders of Microsoft (Invoice Gates) and Amazon (Jeff Bezos) have their accounts on the platform as properly. Nonetheless, Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner has not but joined Threads.
Nadella additionally shared a hyperlink to a Microsoft weblog put up that formally introduced the partnership.
The weblog stated “Meta and Microsoft introduced assist for the Llama 2 household of huge language fashions (LLMs) on Azure and Home windows. Llama 2 is designed to allow builders and organizations to construct generative AI-powered instruments and experiences.”
“Meta and Microsoft share a dedication to democratizing AI and its advantages and we’re excited that Meta is taking an open strategy with Llama 2. We provide builders alternative within the forms of fashions they construct on, supporting open and frontier fashions and are thrilled to be Meta’s most popular associate as they launch their new model of Llama 2 to business prospects for the primary time,” it additional said.
Meta launched Threads app on July 6 this yr. The app goals to tackle Twitter. It’s accessible for each Apple App Retailer and Google Play Retailer. Customers can share posts with as much as 500 characters and embody hyperlinks, images, and movies as much as 5 minutes in size.
Lately, it was reported that Threads might introduce a characteristic that resembles Twitter’s Direct Messaging (DMs). This characteristic will permit customers to privately ship messages throughout the similar platform.
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Up to date: 19 Jul 2023, 11:02 AM IST
