New Delhi: The CEO and chairman of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, has joined Threads, a Twitter alternative created by Meta. This information was released at the same time Microsoft and Meta announced a new AI alliance. Nadella stated his enthusiasm for working with Threads and extending the AI partnership with Meta.
In his inaugural Threads post, he stated, “Today is an incredible day to join Threads! We’re thrilled to strengthen our AI partnership with Meta by integrating their Llama family of large language models into Azure. This aligns perfectly with our vision of becoming the preferred cloud platform for both cutting-edge and open models.”
Sundar Pichai fro Google and Andy Jassy from Amazon are two more well-known tech CEOs who [participate on Threads. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, and Jeff Bezos, the founder of amazon, both have accounts on the platform. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, must still sign up for Threads.
The blog said “Meta and Microsoft announced support for the Llama 2 family of large language models (LLMs) on Azure and Windows. Llama 2 is designed to enable developers and organizations to build generative AI-powered tools and experiences.”
“Meta and Microsoft share a commitment to democratizing AI and its benefits and we are excited that Meta is taking an open approach with Llama 2. We offer developers choice in the types of models they build on, supporting open and frontier models and are thrilled to be Meta’s preferred partner as they release their new version of Llama 2 to commercial customers for the first time,” it further stated.
Meta introduced the Threads app on July 16th this year. The app aims to take on Twitter. It is available for both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Users can share posts with up to 500 characters and include links, photos, and videos up to 5 minutes in length.
A recent rumour said Threads would incorporate a functionality similar to Twitter’s Direct messaging system. Thanks to this functionality, users will be able to chat with one another on the same platform privately.
