Neural Notes: ACCC probes LLM market, Meta’s new Llama, and KFC’s drive-through experiment

Welcome back to Neural Notes, the weekly newsletter where Tegan Jones tackles the latest developments in artificial intelligence. I am writing today’s newsletter, but rest assured Tegan will return next week.

In this edition: Australia’s competition watchdog reveals a new focus on large language models (LLMs); Meta touts its “most capable” models yet; and KFC causes a clucking flurry at the drive-through.

ACCC competition callout

For its tenth and final report in the Digital Platform Services inquiry, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is considering the ties between LLMs and constrained market competition.

Unlike prior reports from the inquiry, which asked if AI