💡Case study in corporate BS ❓When does a corporation decide *not* to release their products into one of the largest markets in the world? 🤔We can safely assume, that the real reason behind Meta’s decision *not* to release their multimodal models in the EU is *the exact opposite* to what they are claiming. 🇪🇺EU regulatory environment in regards to AI is one of the most transparent ones, especially now, after the long-awaited and publicly discussed AI act was published and will be applied starting August 2nd. ⚠️And Meta (as everybody else) needs to comply with AI Act’s copyright and privacy provisions, but most likely can’t. 🧵Remember last year how we got Threads 6 months later than everybody else? It was for the similar reason(s) - at least a basic protection of *our privacy* was one of them. 🤷♂️That’s why a corporation decides *not* to release their products into one of the largest markets in the world. 🤝Let’s *not* fall into the corporate BS PR trap here, shall we?
Meta will *not* release the multimodal versions of its AI products and models in the EU because of an unpredictable regulatory environment. This means that EU users of Ray-Ban Meta won't be able to use the image understanding features. It also means that the EU industry will not have access to future multimodal versions of Llama-3. https://lnkd.in/ehdAYHmb
