Scoop: Meta won't offer future multimodal AI models in EU

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The social media giant says EU regulators haven't provided clarity.

Meta will withhold its next multimodal AI model — and future ones — from customers in the European Union because of what it says is a lack of clarity from regulators there, Axios has learned.The move sets up a showdown between Meta and EU regulators and highlights a growing willingness among U.S. tech giants to withhold products from European customers.

Meta says its decision also means that European companies will not be able to use the multimodal models even though they are being released under an open license. The company is also planning to release a larger, text-only version of its Llama 3 model soon. That will be made available for customers and companies in the EU, Meta said., but rather with how it can train models using data from European customers while complying with GDPR — the EU's existing data protection law.in May that it planned to use publicly available posts from Facebook and Instagram users to train future models.

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