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Meta Unveils Movie Gen: AI-Powered Video Creation and Editing Suite

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Chris McKay• October 4, 2024 • 3 min read

You can type a description—such as "a day at the beach with dolphins jumping in the background"—and the model creates a 16-second video clip, complete with plausible object interactions, motion, and camera dynamics.

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Meta Begins Rolling Out Memory Feature to Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

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Chris McKay• October 3, 2024 • 1 min read

The update also improves the AI's conversational abilities. You can now start a chat with a single "Hey Meta" command and continue the interaction without repeating the wake phrase.

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Meet Orion: Zuckerberg's Bold Vision for the Post-Smartphone Era

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Chris McKay• September 26, 2024 • 2 min read

While not yet ready for consumer release, this prototype offers a tantalizing glimpse of how we might interact with technology in the coming years.

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Meta Unveils AI-Powered Video Avatars for Creators

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Chris McKay• September 25, 2024 • 1 min read

In a live demo, artist and author Don Allen Stevenson III joined Zuckerberg on stage to showcase a video avatar of himself answering questions about his creative process, and highlighting the potential for creators to scale their audience interactions.

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Meta Releases Llama 3.2: Lightweight and Multimodal Models

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Chris McKay• September 25, 2024 • 3 min read

Two smaller models, 1B and 3B parameters, are designed for edge and mobile devices, while larger 11B and 90B parameter models bring vision capabilities to the Llama ecosystem.

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Meta AI Hits 400 Million Monthly Users

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Chris McKay• August 29, 2024 • 2 min read

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 and Spotify CEOs Warn EU AI Regulations Stifle Innovation

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Chris McKay• August 21, 2024 • 2 min read

The tech leaders argue that Europe's complex and inconsistent regulatory environment is putting the continent at risk of falling behind in AI development.

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Meta's AI Studio and Our Evolving Relationship with Technology

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Chris McKay• July 30, 2024 • 3 min read

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.

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Meta Unveils SAM 2: A Unified Model for Real-Time Object Segmentation in Images and Videos

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Chris McKay• July 29, 2024 • 2 min read

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.

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Meta Releases Llama 3.1 with 405B Parameter Model

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Chris McKay• July 23, 2024 • 3 min read

The new models boast impressive capabilities that rival—and in some benchmarks, surpass—leading proprietary models from industry giants like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Meta Unveils 3D Gen: AI that Creates Detailed 3D Assets in Under a Minute

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Chris McKay• July 2, 2024 • 2 min read

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

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Meta Changes AI Labels to Clear Up User Confusion

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Chris McKay• July 1, 2024 • 2 min read

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.

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Meta Releases New AI Models and Datasets for Open Research

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Chris McKay• June 18, 2024 • 2 min read

The models include Meta Chameleon, Meta Multi-Token Prediction, Meta JASCO, and Meta AudioSeal, each with unique capabilities and contributions to the field.

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Meta Introduces More Generative AI Tools for Advertisers

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Chris McKay• May 7, 2024 • 2 min read

These updated generative AI features will be available in Ads Manager through Advantage+ creative, aiming to provide faster ad creation and better performance.

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

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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

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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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How to Run Llama 3 On Your PC or Mac

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Chris McKay• April 19, 2024 • 2 min read

A detailed guide on how you can run Llama 3 models locally on Mac, Windows or Ubuntu.

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Meta Launches Standalone AI Chatbot Website

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Chris McKay• February 15, 2024 • 2 min read

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