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Introducing the ‘new’ New Icon
Thursday, 15 January 2026 - Today, we’re excited to introduce the ‘new’ New Icon, which marks a significant next step in our evolution.
By combining New Icon’s design-thinking and agile delivery expertise with Linebreak UK’s enterprise digital transformation capabilities and deep-tech ecosystem, we’re creating a new kind of digital transformation partner.
New Icon is built to help ambitious organisations innovate smarter and faster in a real-time world.
What is the ‘new’ New Icon?
Whether clients need end-to-end transformation or a single app, we can deliver the full lifecycle from strategy and vision through to design, build and deployment for enterprise-grade
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The OpenAi irony. Is Meta the real “Open” AI?
The OpenAi irony. Is Meta the real “Open” AI.
In April, Meta teased a groundbreaking open-source AI model to rival the best private models from companies like OpenAI. Today, they deliver with Llama 3.1, boasting 405 billion parameters, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on several benchmarks.
Key Highlights:
- Performance: Llama 3.1 outshines major competitors and is now available in more countries and languages.
- Scale: Trained with over 16,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, costing hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Accessibility: Meta offers Llama 3.1 under an open-source license, promoting its use like Linux in the OS market.
- Data Use: Meta used