Meta’s WhatsApp is going after big businesses to capitalize on the app’s popularity

It’s been nearly a decade since Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shocked the tech world by announcing that his company would spend $19 billion on WhatsApp, the popular messaging app with a small business presence. Since then, WhatsApp has remained somewhat of an anachronism. Usage continued to grow, with over 2 billion people using the app…

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Alibaba is launching an Artificial Intelligence model that can understand images and hold more complex conversations

Alibaba launched a new artificial intelligence model that the company says can understand images and hold more complex conversations than the company’s previous products, as the global race for technology leadership heats. The Chinese tech giant said its two new models, Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat, are open source, meaning researchers, researchers and companies around the world…

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