Meta will not offer new multimodal AI models in the European Union

Meta said in a statement that they will release a multi-modal Llama model in the coming months, but it will not be released in the European Union due to the unpredictability of regulatory environments in Europe. The move sets the stage for a showdown between Meta and European Union regulators and highlights the increasing choice of US tech giants to refuse to offer their products to European customers. Just last month, Apple similarly said it would not release Apple Intelligence features in Europe due to regulatory concerns. It is reported that Meta plans to adopt new multi-modality models in a variety of products including smartphones and Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, which can reason between video, audio, images and text. Meta said the decision means European companies will not be able to use Multi-modality models, even though they are released as open licenses.