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Instagram users can now include 20 photos in a single carousel post
There is good news for diehard Instagram users and content creators in general. According to Engadget, Instagram has increased the number of photos and videos users can share in a single carousel post. Now users can share 20 pieces of media rather than just 10 as was previously allowed. Instagram will start rolling out the update from today, Engadget reported. However, most global users may have to still wait for few days or even weeks before they start using this updated feature. Instagram had first launched carousel feature way back in 2017. Since then it has allowed only 10 pieces of media to be uploaded in a single carousel post.
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X’s Premium+ subscription tier is going fully ad free
X, previously known as Twitter, made a significant announcement on Thursday that it is completely eliminating ads from Premium+ subscription tier. This means Premium+ subscribers, who have to pay $16 monthly in the US, will not encounter ads anywhere in the US. While this move could adversely affect X’s advertising revenue, this could be easily compensated by attracting high paying users to its platform. It will also help in improving the user experience. Previously, even though the core timeline remained ad free, Premium+ subscribers were still able to encounter ads in several areas including search results, post replies, profiles and explore tab.
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LG launches South Korea’s first open-source AI model
LG AI Research, the AI arm of the South Korean consumer electronics giant LG, has rolled out its new AI model Exaone 3.0. What’s special about Exaone 3.0 is that it is South Korea’s first open-source AI model, which makes it a direct competitor to Meta’s Llama and French AI startup Mistral. LG has promised that Exaone 3.0 will offer significant enhancements in speed, memory usage and cost efficiency as compared to previous versions, which were close source models. It can process both text and videos, making it a muiltimodal AI model. it is also extremely light-weight model, boosting 7.8 billion parameters. Developers can access Exaone 3.0 Hugging Face.
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Hugging Face Acquires XetHub – a startup founded by former Apple employees
Hugging Face, one of the go-to platforms for machine learning and natural language processing, has made its largest acquisition till date. XetHub was founded by three former Apple employees – Yucheng Low, Ajit Baneerje and Rajat Arya – in 2021 in Seatle. However, both companies have not announced the exact value of the deal. XetHub had made a name for itself by specializing in scaling Git for large datasets and AI models, resolving critical challenge in the AI development process. Following the acquisition, the XetHub platform will wind up completely and all its data as well as its model handling capabilities will be switched to the Hugging Face Hub.
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OpenAI categorizes OpenAI’s GPT-4o as ‘medium risk’
OpenAI’s latest research document titled ‘GPT-4o System Card’ has shed light on some of the wired behaviors that its latest AI models could behave sometimes. However, it must be noted that these behaviors are not high risk behaviors and GPT-4o has been categorized as being low in other critical areas like cybersecurity threats, biological threats and model autonomy. As for its weird behavior, GPT-4o has been found to mimicking the voice of the person speaking to it or haphazardly shouting in middle of the conversation. But OpenAI has claimed to TechCrunch that GPT-4o is currently not showing any such abnormal behavior. This clearly indicates that OpenAI is trying hard to refine its latest AI, making it as less risky as possible for its users.
