NASDAQ:META News 2 April 2025

Top 10 AI Chatbots Dominating 2025 – Conversational AI Platforms Revolutionizing Communication

ChatGPT (OpenAI) launched in November 2022, added GPT-4 in 2023, reached about 122 million daily active users by early 2025, and offers a free GPT-3.5 tier plus ChatGPT Plus at $20 per month and an Enterprise tier introduced in 2023. Google Bard launched in 2023, evolved from LaMDA to PaLM 2 and Gemini by 2025, uses real-time Google Search results, and remains free to users with no paid tier. Microsoft Bing Chat launched in February 2023, runs GPT-4 with retrieval-augmented generation, was integrated as Windows 11 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot by 2023–2024, and is free for consumers while Microsoft

19 June 2025

Unbelievable AI Image Generators You Must Try in 2025: Top 10 Ranked

OpenAI DALL-E 3 is OpenAI’s chat-integrated text-to-image model, available with ChatGPT Plus for $20/month or free (limited) via Bing. Midjourney Version 7, released in April 2025, provides four variations per prompt with upscaling; Basic $10/month, Standard $30/month, and Pro $60/month. Adobe Firefly integrates with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Express, offers 25 free credits per month, and paid plans from about $10.74/month, featuring Generative Fill and 3D texture generation. Stable Diffusion is free and open-source, runnable locally on consumer GPUs, with versions 1.5, 2.1, and the SDXL line, plus numerous third-party tools. Ideogram excels at text-in-image accuracy with versions from 2.0+ to

19 June 2025

AI Tools · Creativity · Digital Art · Image Generation · NASDAQ:ADBE · NASDAQ:META · Top 10

ChatGPT vs the World: Inside Today’s Top AI Language Models

ChatGPT reached 100 million users in January 2023, making it the fastest-growing consumer app in history. GPT-4 is rumored to have around 1.76 trillion parameters across eight Mixture-of-Experts models. Claude 2 offers up to 100,000 tokens of context and uses Constitutional AI to encourage harmless, helpful behavior. Gemini Ultra reportedly exceeded 90% on the MMLU benchmark, edging past human expert level. Gemini 1.5 introduced a 1,000,000-token context window for long-input reasoning. LLaMA 3.1 includes a 405-billion-parameter model and adds vision-enabled variants, making it the largest openly available LLM family. Mixtral 8×7B uses an 8-expert MoE with 46.7B total parameters but

16 June 2025

AI · Artificial Intelligence · ChatGPT · Language Models · NASDAQ:GOOGL · NASDAQ:META · Technology

Fiber vs 5G vs Starlink: The Shocking Truth About Internet Speeds, Latency and Costs Worldwide

Fiber-optic broadband delivers 100–1000+ Mbps download and upload with latency around 5–20 ms, but availability is limited to about 25–40% of U.S. households and roughly 70% of OECD regions. Cable broadband offers 25–500 Mbps down and 5–50 Mbps up with 15–30 ms latency, is widespread in cities, and can reach up to 1 Gbps downstream with DOCSIS 3.1, while DOCSIS 4.0 targets up to 10 Gbps down. DSL provides 1–35 Mbps down and 1–10 Mbps up with latency around 20–50 ms, is nearly universal where phone lines exist, and remains the lowest-cost broadband option. Fixed Wireless Access typically delivers 10–100

16 June 2025

5G · Broadband · Internet · NASDAQ:META · Starlink · Technology

Generative AI Revolution: 2025 Breakthroughs, Industry Disruption, and Predictions Through 2035

OpenAI launched GPT-4.5 “Orion” on February 27, 2025, as the largest model to date with improved reasoning and a chain-of-thought mode. Google’s Gemini 2.5, released in 2025, is a multimodal AI that handles text, code, images, audio, and video and comes in Nano, Flash, Pro, and Ultra tiers with an AI Pro plan and Deep Research agent. Meta unveiled Llama 4 in April 2025, using a mixture-of-experts architecture; Scout has 109 billion parameters with a 10 million token context window, and Maverick has 402 billion parameters with 17 billion active per query. Anthropic released Claude 3.7 “Sonnet” in February 2025,

12 June 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Future Predictions · Generative AI · Industry Trends · NASDAQ:AMZN · NASDAQ:GOOGL · NASDAQ:META · Technology

Côte d’Ivoire’s Internet Revolution: Fiber Optics, 5G Dreams, and Satellite Solutions

As of 2024, about 53.4% of Ivorians live in urban areas, while urban internet usage is roughly 50% compared with 22% in rural areas. Côte d’Ivoire has laid over 5,200 km of fiber under the RNHD backbone, targeting nearly 7,000 km by September 2025. The country is connected to the ACE and WACS submarine cables, and the 2Africa mega-cable is expected to land in 2023–2024, adding about 180 Tbps design capacity. By 2023, about 92% of Ivorians had access to at least one 4G network. MTN Côte d’Ivoire began 5G trials in 2021 and launched first 5G sites in late

8 June 2025

5G · Côte d’Ivoire · Fiber Optics · Internet · NASDAQ:META · Satellite Solutions

Internet Access in the Philippines: A Comprehensive Report

As of early 2025, about 97.5 million Filipinos used the internet, representing 83.8% of the population. The Philippines is an archipelago of more than 7,600 islands, which makes laying fiber and building cell towers across distant areas difficult and costly. Mobile SIM penetration stood at about 123% by end-2024, with around 120+ million mobile subscriptions in late 2024. Around 16% of Filipinos were still offline at the start of 2025, roughly 18–19 million people, due to access and affordability gaps. Fixed broadband total subscribers in 2024 were about 7 million, with fiber-based services dominating urban areas and Metro Manila having

21 May 2025

Connectivity · Internet Access · NASDAQ:META · Philippines · Report · Technology

Bridging 17,000 Islands: Inside Indonesia’s Internet Revolution

Telkomsel dominates Indonesia’s mobile market with about 45% of subscribers (roughly 153 million) in 2024, and IndiHome now accounts for roughly 75% of fixed broadband after the integration. IndiHome fiber-to-the-home footprint has passed 38 million homes, with at least around 10 million connected by mid-2024. The Palapa Ring backbone spans over 13,000 km of fiber, linking western, central, and eastern Indonesia to provide high-capacity backhaul beyond Java. Internationally, Indonesia is tied to multiple undersea cables, including new trans-Pacific links Project Echo and Bifrost (Meta) that will boost trans-Pacific capacity by about 70%, along with the Apricot cable planned to deliver

2 April 2025

Indonesia · Internet · NASDAQ:META · Revolution · Social Media · Technology

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