Chinese officials are reviewing Meta's $2 cardinal acquisition of AI startup Manus for imaginable exertion power violations, FT reported connected Tuesday.
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Meta Platforms is acceptable to trial caller subscription models crossed its apps, including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp successful the coming months, according to a study from TechCrunch connected Tuesday.
The report, confirmed by a Meta spokesperson, said the subscriptions are expected to "unlock much productivity and creativity" by giving paid users entree to much features and expanded AI capabilities.
Meta's precocious acquired suite of wide AI agents nether Manus volition besides beryllium scaled arsenic portion of the subscription plans. Meta Platforms bought Manus — a Singapore-based developer of AI agents founded successful China — successful December for a reported $2 billion.
With its caller subscription plans, Meta could beryllium seeking a instrumentality connected concern from its monolithic spending connected AI endowment and acquisitions past year, adjacent earlier the Manus purchase.
While Meta has been processing ample connection models nether the Llama umbrella, those person been open-sourced. That means wide entree to Llama has remained free, dissimilar with paid plans from AI leaders similar OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
Other features offered arsenic portion of Meta's paid plans could see afloat entree to its AI-powered short-form video acquisition Vibes, which allows users to make and remix AI-generated videos.
While Vibes has been escaped since its motorboat successful 2025, the caller subscription exemplary would assistance escaped entree to its basal version, with the enactment to wage for further features.
The subscriptions volition beryllium abstracted from Meta Verified, a paid merchandise rolled retired by the institution successful 2023 that gave contented creators and businesses a verified badge, 24/7 nonstop support, extortion against impersonation, hunt optimization, and more.
Meta told TechCrunch that it plans to perceive to its idiosyncratic assemblage and stitchery feedback arsenic it rolls retired subscriptions successful the coming months.
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