Meta Is Keeping Its Next Big AI Update Out of the EU So far, the EU's increasing regulations on big tech have threatened Apple, Meta, and Microsoft with fines in the billions, plus forced Apple to allow third-party app stores and payment methods in the EU. Companies looking to operate in the region have little choice but to cooperate, but Facebook parent company Meta has a solution: It's taking its ball and going home. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Kate McLaughlin said that the company's next-gen Llama AI model is skipping Europe, placing the blame squarely on regulations. "We will release a multimodal Llama model over the coming months," Mclaughlin said, "but not in the EU due to the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment." A multimodal model is one that can incorporate data between multiple mediums, like video and text, and use them together while calculating. It makes AI more powerful, but also gives it more access to your device.