Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta’s Llama models have been downloaded 1B times since their 2023 debut, up from 650M downloads in early December 2024  —  In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bert Hubert’s writings: A look at Europe’s options for building a “European Cloud”, which is likely to be more difficult than the €15B Galileo satellite system, and potential issues  —  The very short version: It has now become clear that European governments can no longer rely on American clouds … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Timmy Shen / The Block: Solana deletes a social media video ad promoting its NYC conference in May 2025 after the crypto community criticized it for insensitivity towards gender issues  —  – Solana posted a video ad on social media on Monday to promote its upcoming conference, but it was removed hours later. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: Google says Wiz will join Google Cloud and that Wiz’s products will continue to work “across all major clouds”, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud  —  Once the deal is closed, Wiz will join the Google Cloud business, the companies said in a statement on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme