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Meta AI app debuts with Discover feed to take on ChatGPT
Bay Area Times
April 30, 2025
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- Meta AI app debuts with Discover feed to take on ChatGPT
- Trump praises Bezos after Amazon denies plan to show tariffs’ costs
- Xiaomi joins China AI race with MiMo open-weight AI model family
- China’s manufacturing activity hits its lowest level in ~2 years in Apr.
- Google Play apps -47% since start of 2024
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1. Meta AI app debuts with Discover feed to take on ChatGPT
Discover feed shows Meta AI’s chats with users, including friends on Instagram and Facebook.
Users can like, comment on, share, and remix these AI posts.
Opt-in voice mode is also available at the forefront.
Uses Facebook and Instagram profile data in the U.S. and Canada to personalize responses.
Additionally, Meta has previewed an API for Llama AI models
Offers tools to fine-tune and evaluate Llama models’ performance.
Built on top of Meta’s recently released Llama 4 models.
Provides model-serving options via Cerebras and Groq.
Meta has also revealed that its Llama models have been downloaded 1.2B times
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3. Trump calls Bezos “very nice” after Amazon denies plan to show tariffs’ costs
Tue.: Trump called Bezos to complain about Amazon’s reported plan to show tariff costs to consumers.
A “hostile and political act,” White House’s Karoline Leavitt said.
Shortly after, Amazon publicly downplayed the scope of its plan.
Amazon Haul’s team “considered listing import charges on certain products,” the company said.
Later, Amazon scrapped the plan entirely and said it “is not going to happen.”
4. Xiaomi joins China AI race with MiMo open-weight AI model family
MiMo-7B-RL is projected to take on OpenAI’s o1-mini, GPT-4o, and Alibaba’s QwQ-32B-Preview:
