Meta launches new AI model as Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for more regulation

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday called for more regulation of artificial intelligence, saying companies are losing control of the technology. On the same day, Meta released a new AI tool. Axios tech and policy reporter Maria Curi joins to discuss.

The senator cited AI-created viruses and recent incidents in which models escaped containment as grounds for an immediate halt

It comes as Meta tries to regain ground on OpenAI and Anthropic, and as Chinese open-source labs close in on the American frontier.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower U.S. barriers for open-source AI models to better compete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model on Monday and said it plans to launch more such models soon.

He says the US needed to rethink policies if domestic firms were to lead in open-weight models.

Meta released a new artificial intelligence model Monday as CEO Mark Zuckerberg called on Washington to lower barriers for US open-source developers to help them beat Chinese rivals.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Bloomberg/Getty Images Meta is launching a new agentic AI model, Muse Glimmer, which it says can run locally on a laptop. The model is open-weight, which means users can download and modify it. Meta also plans to release an open-weight version of Muse Spark, its most powerful AI model. Mark

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows support for open-weight AI, which is gaining traction as businesses grow wary of ballooning AI bills and worry about recent cybersecurity incidents involving models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta

Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight push  Reuters

Aug 10 : Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower U.S. barriers for open-source AI models to compete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model on Monday.The new model, Muse Glimmer, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is instead designed for agentic tasks and can