Meta AI Hits 400 Million Monthly Users
These numbers highlight Meta's advantage in being able to leverage its massive user base (0ver 3 billion people daily) across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
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Meta is the creator of LLaMA, a 65-billion-parameter large language model. The company has risen in popularity in the open-source AI community due to them making many of their models freely available for non-commercial use. With a strong focus on language and vision-based AI models, Meta is setting the stage for their ambitious metaverse plans.
Meta and Spotify CEOs Warn EU AI Regulations Stifle Innovation
The tech leaders argue that Europe's complex and inconsistent regulatory environment is putting the continent at risk of falling behind in AI development.
Meta's AI Studio and Our Evolving Relationship with Technology
Your AI can chat with followers, answer FAQs, even crack jokes – all in your voice, 24/7. It's powered by Meta's new Llama 3.1 language model, so we're talking about state-of-the-art conversational ability here.
Meta Unveils SAM 2: A Unified Model for Real-Time Object Segmentation in Images and Videos
The model’s ability to handle zero-shot generalization allows it to segment objects in unseen visual domains without custom adaptation. Additionally, the SA-V dataset’s extensive annotations can aid in training more robust computer vision systems.
Meta Releases Llama 3.1 with 405B Parameter Model
The new models boast impressive capabilities that rival—and in some benchmarks, surpass—leading proprietary models from industry giants like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Meta Unveils 3D Gen: AI that Creates Detailed 3D Assets in Under a Minute
It uses a two-stage process to create 3D assets. The first stage generates a 3D mesh with physically-based rendering while the second stage refines the textures created in the first stage
Meta Changes AI Labels to Clear Up User Confusion
The company rolled out the original "Made with AI" label in May to flag AI-generated or altered content. But photographers quickly pushed back, finding their lightly edited photos slapped with the AI tag.
Meta Releases New AI Models and Datasets for Open Research
The models include Meta Chameleon, Meta Multi-Token Prediction, Meta JASCO, and Meta AudioSeal, each with unique capabilities and contributions to the field.
Meta Introduces More Generative AI Tools for Advertisers
These updated generative AI features will be available in Ads Manager through Advantage+ creative, aiming to provide faster ad creation and better performance.
Microsoft and Alphabet Ride AI Wave to Impressive Q1 Earnings, Meta Stumbles
AI has been a key driver for Microsoft and Alphabet with Microsoft's cloud services, particularly its Azure platform, benefiting from the technology. Alphabet's Google Cloud division also turned a profit for the first time, now accounting for over 10% of the company's overall revenue.
Meta Smart Glasses Get Multimodal AI Capabilties and New Styles
Meta is enhancing its smart glasses offering with new styles and AI capabilities, providing consumers with a fashionable and functional wearable device.
How to Run Llama 3 On Your PC or Mac
A detailed guide on how you can run Llama 3 models locally on Mac, Windows or Ubuntu.
Meta Launches Standalone AI Chatbot Website
The assistant, which was initially available in messaging inboxes, will now also appear directly in the main Facebook feed and the search box of these apps. Additionally, Meta AI is now accessible via a standalone website at Meta.ai.
Meta Introduces Llama 3
Meta not only continues to push the boundaries of what open-source AI models can achieve but also sets a new standard for responsible AI development and deployment in the industry.
Meta Unveils Next-Generation AI Inference Accelerator: MTIA v2
The second generation of MTIA offers 3X improvements in performance over its predecessor while maintaining a close tie-in to Meta's specific workloads.
Tech Giants Push Boundaries to Access AI Training Data
AI systems rely on vast amounts of data for training and operation, and the methods used to obtain this data are not always ethical.
Meta to Require "Made with AI" Labels for AI Generated Content
The new labels will cover a broader range of content than the company's current manipulated media policy
Tesla Increasing Salaries Amid Fierce AI Talent Competition
As the AI arms race heats up, companies are reallocating resources and investing heavily in AI development, even as layoffs continue in other areas of the tech industry.
Meta is Teaching AI to Understand and Model the Real World by Watching Videos
Yann LeCun says this approach could lead to more flexible reasoning, planning, and general intelligence.
Meta Unveils MAGNeT: A Breakthrough Model That Generates Studio-Quality Audio 7x Faster
Unlike leading model that rely either on slower autoregressive decoding that sequentially generates audio signals, or on diffusion-based architectures that require lengthier sampling procedures, MAGNeT uses parallel masked predictive coding.
Meta Says It Will Label AI Content Across Platforms
The company already creates labels for content created with Meta AI, however, the aim is to extend this to content created using other tools as well.
How To Get Started With CodeLlama-70B
CodeLlama-70B-Instruct achieves 67.8 on HumanEval, making it one of the highest performing open models available today.
Zuckerberg Outlines Meta's Grand AI Ambitions, Massive Infrastructure Investments
Zuckerberg stated that Meta's "long term vision is to build general intelligence, open source it responsibly, and make it widely available so everyone can benefit."
Meta Unveils Early Access Program for AI Capabilities for Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
The new features use the glasses' built-in camera coupled with Meta's AI assistant to understand what the user is looking at and provide helpful information on demand.