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Meta Is Targeting 'Hundreds of Millions' of Businesses In Agentic AI Deployment


Earlier this week, Meta chief product officer Chris Cox said the company's upcoming open-source Llama 4 AI will help power AI agents for hundreds of millions of businesses. CNBC reports: The AI agents won't just be responding to prompts. They will be capable of new levels of reasoning and action --...

They will be capable of new levels of reasoning and action -- surfing the web and handling many tasks that might be of use to consumers and businesses. While major companies across sectors of the economy are investing millions of dollars to develop customer LLMs, "doing fancy things like fine tuning models," as Shih put it, "If you're a small business -- you own a coffee shop, you own a jewelry shop online, you're distributing through Instagram -- you don't have the resources to hire a big AI team, and so now our dream is that they won't have to." For both consumers and businesses, the implications of the advances discussed by Cox and Shih will be significant in daily life.

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