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Meta has released the first two models from its multimodal Llama 4 suite: LLama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. Maverick is the workhorse of the two and excels at image and text understanding for general assistant and chat use cases, the company said in a blog post, while the smaller model Scout could tackle things like multi-document summarization, parsing extensive user activity for personalized tasks, and reasoning over vast codebases. The company also introduced Llama 4 Behemoth, an upcoming model it says is among the worlds smartest LLMs and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said well be hearing about a fourth model, LLama 4 Reasoning, in the next month. Both Maverick and Scout are available to download now from the LLama website and Hugging Face, and theyve been added to Meta AI, including for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram DMs. Meta Scout has 17 billion active parameters with 16 experts, Meta says. According to Zuckerberg, Its extremely fast, natively multimodal, and has an industry leading, nearly infinite 10 million token context length, and it is designed to run on a single GPU. Maverick on the other hand has 17 billion active parameters with 128 experts. The company says it beats competitors like GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 on coding, reasoning, multilingual, long-context and image benchmarks, and stacks up against DeepSeek v3.1 on reasoning and coding. Zuckerberg is already calling the upcoming Behemoth model, which is still training, the highest performing base model in the world, with 288 billion active parameters, according to the company. It may not be here yet, but its likely well be hearing a lot more about that and the Reasoning model soon; Metas big AI developer conference, LlamaCon, is just a few weeks away.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-introduces-llama-4-with-two-new-models-available-now-and-two-more-on-the-way-214524295.html?src=rss
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Amazon's new feature could make it easier to get into the latest release in a series, especially if it's been some time since you've read the previous books. The new Recaps feature is part of the latest software update for the Kindle, and the company compares it to "Previously on..." segments you can watch for TV shows. Amazon announced Recaps in a blog post, where it said that you can get access to it once you receive the software update over the air or after you download and install it from Amazon's website. Amazon didn't talk about the technology behind the feature in its post, but a spokesperson has confirmed to TechCrunch that the recaps will be AI generated. Shortly after the feature rolled out, users talked about it on social media, wondering if Amazon is using generative AI to write series summaries. They expressed concerns about the use of generative AI, especially about the possibility of the technology hallucinating plot elements that aren't actually in the books. "We use technology, including GenAI and Amazon moderators, to create short recaps of books that accurately reflect book content," Amazon spokesperson Ale Iraheta told the publication. Iraheta assured TechCrunch that Amazon's recaps are accurate, but of course, use it at your own risk. At the moment, the Recaps feature is available for best-selling English-language book series on all Kindle devices in the US. To know if your favorite series has one, look for the "View Recaps" button within the series page in your Kindle library. It will soon be available for the Kindle app on iOS, as well. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-will-use-ai-to-generate-recaps-for-book-series-on-the-kindle-170018503.html?src=rss
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UK-based Jaguar Land Rover says its pausing shipments to the US after President Donald Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on passenger vehicles and other auto imports. The pause will be in effect this month, the Associated Press reports. While the full impact of the tariffs remains to be seen, analysts have said the move could ultimately drive up the cost of new and even used cars. The USA is an important market for JLRs luxury brands, Jaguar Land Rover said in a statement to AP. As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are taking some short-term actions including a shipment pause in April, as we develop our mid- to longer-term plans. Trumps tariffs go well beyond the auto industry, and were only seeing the beginning of how the US trading partners will respond. The president announced a 10 percent baseline tariff on all countries this week, and some will face even higher reciprocal tariffs. Among the immediate effects, Nintendo has delayed pre-orders of the new Switch 2 in the US.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/jaguar-land-rover-pauses-us-shipments-while-it-figures-out-a-plan-for-trumps-tariffs-172512506.html?src=rss
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