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Before she even arrived at Los Angeles club The Highlight Room, model Alexa Jay had anxiety. Jay, 24, who is black and plus-size, said she has experienced discrimination at clubs, bars and parties since her freshman year of college. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Influencers claim they were denied entry to a club over their size. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> But she decided to push those concerns aside to attend her friend’s birthday party. So she waited in the tightly packed corridor of the club’s entrance alongside several friends, including curve model and influencer Ella Halikas. But while some in their group were admitted to the club, Jay and Halikas were stopped by the bouncer, they said. “He looks me head to toe, takes his time, up and down, and goes, ‘Not tonight’,” Jay said. “That’s when I knew exactly what was going on and I said, ‘It’s happening’.” The two models said they believe they were turned away for being plus-size. They said what...

Professional skateboarder and Californian model Brooke Khoury lost her lip and parts of her nose when she was attack ed by a pit bull in 2020. Since then, she has been sharing the reconstruction of her face, and says with each surgery she recognises herself more. Khoury was at her cousin’s house on November 3 in 2020, patting their pit bull “and telling him how good of a boy he was” moments before the attack, she said on a YouTube video recounting the attack. For more Health & Wellbeing related news and videos check out Health & Wellbeing >> “I turned around and then turned back and he literally lunged at my face,” she said. The dog latched onto her face and began to shake its head from side to side. When it eventually released its grip, Khoury heard something drop to the ground - it was her lip. “It wasn’t until almost the last day in the hospital when I looked down at my phone screen and saw my reflection,” she said on Instagram. Model and skateboarder Brooke Khoury...

A group of engineers, researchers and a Silicon Valley-based chip company collaborated to release advanced Arabic language software that can power generative AI applications. The new large language model called Jais contains 13 billion parameters that was made from a big batch of data combining Arabic and English, a portion of which is from computer code. The group, which included academics and engineers embarked, on the project in part because they said there are few large language models that are bilingual. The new language model was created with the help of supercomputers produced by the Silicon Valley-based Cerebras Systems, which designs dinner plate-sized chips that com Pet e with Nvidia's powerful AI hardware. Nvidia's chips are in short supply, which has driven companies around the world to seek alternatives. Named after the highest peak in the United Arab Emirates, Jais is a collaboration between Cerebras, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artifi...

Alibaba's  cloud computing division said it has become the first Chinese enterprise to support Meta's open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model Llama, allowing its Chinese Business users to develop programs off the model . Meta released Llama2, a commercial version of Llama, this month to provide businesses a powerful free-of-charge alternative to pricey proprietary models sold by OpenAI and Google. At the time, Meta said its preferred partner for Llama2 was Microsoft but it would also be available through other partners. “Today, Alibaba Cloud has launched the first training and deployment solution for the entire Llama2 series in China, welcoming all developers to create customised large model s on Alibaba Cloud,” Alibaba Cloud said in a statement on Tuesday published on its WeChat account. The relationship with Meta could provide sticky customers for Alibaba's cloud business at a time it is facing intensified competition at home a...