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Microsoft and Alphabet Ride AI Wave to Impressive Q1 Earnings, Meta Stumbles

Chris McKay• April 26, 2024 • 4 min read

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.

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Meta Smart Glasses Get Multimodal AI Capabilties and New Styles

Chris McKay• April 23, 2024 • 2 min read

Meta is enhancing its smart glasses offering with new styles and AI capabilities, providing consumers with a fashionable and functional wearable device.

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Meta Launches Standalone AI Chatbot Website

Chris McKay• April 18, 2024 • 3 min read

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.

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Meta Introduces Llama 3

Chris McKay• April 18, 2024 • 3 min read

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.

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Meta Unveils Next-Generation AI Inference Accelerator: MTIA v2

Chris McKay• April 10, 2024 • 2 min read

The second generation of MTIA offers 3X improvements in performance over its predecessor while maintaining a close tie-in to Meta's specific workloads.

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Tech Giants Push Boundaries to Access AI Training Data

Chris McKay• April 7, 2024 • 2 min read

AI systems rely on vast amounts of data for training and operation, and the methods used to obtain this data are not always ethical.

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Meta to Require "Made with AI" Labels for AI Generated Content

Chris McKay• April 5, 2024 • 2 min read

The new labels will cover a broader range of content than the company's current manipulated media policy

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Tesla Increasing Salaries Amid Fierce AI Talent Competition

Chris McKay• April 4, 2024 • 2 min read

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.

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Meta is Teaching AI to Understand and Model the Real World by Watching Videos

Chris McKay• February 15, 2024 • 2 min read

Yann LeCun says this approach could lead to more flexible reasoning, planning, and general intelligence.

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Meta Unveils MAGNeT: A Breakthrough Model That Generates Studio-Quality Audio 7x Faster

Chris McKay• February 14, 2024 • 2 min read

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.

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Meta Says It Will Label AI Content Across Platforms

Richard Banfield• February 6, 2024 • 2 min read

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.

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How To Get Started With CodeLlama-70B

Chris McKay• January 29, 2024 • 2 min read

CodeLlama-70B-Instruct achieves 67.8 on HumanEval, making it one of the highest performing open models available today.

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Zuckerberg Outlines Meta's Grand AI Ambitions, Massive Infrastructure Investments

Chris McKay• January 19, 2024 • 2 min read

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."

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Meta Unveils Early Access Program for AI Capabilities for Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

Richard Banfield• December 12, 2023 • 2 min read

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.

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Meta Launches Audiobox Demo Website and Announces Grant Program

Chris McKay• December 11, 2023 • 3 min read

Users can describe the type of audio they want Audiobox to generate using natural language and play with various model features and tools.

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Meta Launches Purple Llama to Promote Responsible and Equitable Generative AI

Chris McKay• December 7, 2023 • 2 min read

The company seeks to seeks to promote open collaboration to address challenges around cybersecurity, content filtering, and mitigating potential harms that are top-of-mind across the industry.

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Meta AI's Year-End Updates: New AI-Driven Experiences Across Products

Chris McKay• December 6, 2023 • 2 min read

From Facebook to Instagram, and WhatsApp to Messenger, here's a look at the latest AI-driven enhancements that are set to transform user experiences.

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IBM and Meta Form The AI Alliance, An International Community to Accelerate Progress in Open and Responsible AI

Chris McKay• December 5, 2023 • 3 min read

The group consists of over 50 launch partners spanning industry giants, research pioneers, and innovators in AI hardware, software, and applications.

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Meta's New AI Models Aim to Make Communication Seamless Across Languages

Chris McKay• November 30, 2023 • 3 min read

Meta’s suite of models marks a significant stride towards realizing a future where language differences cease to be barriers.

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Meta Unveils Audiobox, A new foundation model for Custom Audio Generation

Chris McKay• November 30, 2023 • 2 min read

What sets Audiobox apart is its ability to accept both voice recordings and natural language text as inputs. This dual input mechanism grants more granular control over the generated audio.

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Meta Disbands Responsible AI Team

Chris McKay• November 27, 2023 • 1 min read

The restructuring will see most team members shifted to Meta’s burgeoning generative AI team, while others will join the AI infrastructure unit.

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Meta's New AI Tech Can Edit Images with Text and Convert Them to Video

Chris McKay• November 16, 2023 • 2 min read

Building on their prior work in image and video generation, these models showcase impressive capabilities in high-quality, diffusion-based text-to-video generation and controlled image editing using text instructions.

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Meta will Mandate Disclosure for Political Ads Altered With AI

Chris McKay• November 8, 2023 • 2 min read

This policy will go into effect in the new year and will be required globally.

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Dell and Meta Partner to Simplify On-Premises Deployment of Llama 2 for Enterprises

Chris McKay• October 31, 2023 • 1 min read

With on-premises solutions, customers maintain complete data sovereignty and model governance. IP protection and regulatory compliance can be ensured, reducing risks associated with public cloud options.