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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Meta Advances Socially Intelligent Robots with Habitat 3.0, HSSD-200, and HomeRobot

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Chris McKay• October 20, 2023 • 2 min read

The breakthroughs aim to enable real-world collaborative robots and augmented reality assistants.

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Meta Launches $500K Llama Impact Grants

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Chris McKay• October 6, 2023 • 1 min read

The Llama Impact Grants program seeks to identify and support compelling applications of Llama 2 that provide social benefits across the globe.

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Meta's New Generative AI Features for Advertisers Boost Creativity and Performance

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Chris McKay• October 4, 2023 • 2 min read

The new capabilities allow advertisers to easily generate multiple variations of ad images and text. This helps them tailor campaigns for its different platforms and audiences while saving significant time and resources.

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10 Things to Know About the New AI Chats From Meta

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Chris McKay• September 28, 2023 • 4 min read

From a versatile conversational assistant to quirky bot personalities, Meta is bringing generative AI to the billions who use its apps.

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A Deep Dive Inside Emu, Meta's New Image Generation AI Model

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Chris McKay• September 27, 2023 • 3 min read

The key innovation behind Emu is a technique called "quality tuning" that dramatically enhances the visual appeal of images produced by AI text-to-image models.

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Meta Unveils New AI Features Across Messaging Apps and Devices

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Chris McKay• September 27, 2023 • 2 min read

The features leverage generative AI to enable more creative expression and personalized assistance for users.

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Meta AI's Internal Struggle Over Resources and Talent Retention

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Chris McKay• September 5, 2023 • 3 min read

Following the AI breakthroughs from OpenAI and other tech giants, Meta rushed to release its own large language models that it hoped could compete. But with limited compute power to go around, the teams within FAIR clashed over resource allocation, sparking resentment and defections.

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Meta Releases BELEBELE, A Multilingual AI Benchmark Spanning 122 Languages

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Chris McKay• September 4, 2023 • 2 min read

BELEBELE represents the largest parallel multilingual benchmark ever created specifically for reading comprehension.

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Embracing Open Source and Equity: Meta Announces Commercial Relicensing of DINOv2 and Introduction of FACET

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Chris McKay• August 31, 2023 • 2 min read

By opening up DINOv2 under a more permissive license and introducing FACET for fairness benchmarking, Meta is setting a positive example for responsible AI development.

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Meta Releases Code Llama, Powerful Foundation Models for Coding

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Chris McKay• August 24, 2023 • 2 min read

Code Llama, which is built on top of Llama 2, is free for research and commercial use and outperforms other open-source, code-specific LLMs.