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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.

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Meta AI's Internal Struggle Over Resources and Talent Retention

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

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

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

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.

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Meta Unveils SeamlessM4T for Near Universal Speech Translation

Chris McKay• August 22, 2023 • 3 min read

The project represents Meta's endeavor to create a unified multilingual system capable of catering to all language translation needs.

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IBM to Make Meta's Llama 2 AI Model Available on Watsonx Platform

Chris McKay• August 9, 2023 • 1 min read

This will give Watsonx users access to Llama 2, a 70 billion parameter generative AI model fine-tuned by Meta for natural language tasks.

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Meta Open Sources AudioCraft

Chris McKay• August 2, 2023 • 3 min read

The company says responsible innovation can’t happen in isolation. By open sourcing its research and resulting models, it hopes to ensure that everyone has equal access.

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Meta Releases Open Catalyst Demo to Help Discover Catalysts Faster With AI

Chris McKay• July 27, 2023 • 2 min read

The research represents a potential game-changer for material science, enabling catalyst simulations at unprecedented speeds and scales.

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Get Hands-On With Meta's New Llama 2 Chat

Chris McKay• July 18, 2023 • 2 min read

With the release of LLaMA 2, Meta presents developers worldwide with unprecedented access to a state-of-the-art foundational AI model - opening new frontiers for exploration and innovation.

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Big Tech's Trojan Horse: The Hidden Agenda Behind Open-Sourced AI

Chris McKay• July 18, 2023 • 4 min read

As AI reshapes our world, we find ourselves paradoxically dependent on the benevolence of tech giants; their decisions to open-source, or not, are defining the future of this transformative technology.

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Meta Unveils CM3leon: A Breakthrough AI Model for Advanced Text-to-Image Generation and Image Understanding

Chris McKay• July 14, 2023 • 3 min read

With its versatile capabilities and improved performance, CM3leon represents a significant step towards higher-fidelity image generation and understanding, paving the way for enhanced creativity and applications in the metaverse.

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Take a listen to Voicebox, Meta's new generative AI for speech

Chris McKay• June 16, 2023 • 2 min read

This new model is a significant leap forward in AI speech synthesis, demonstrating its versatility and efficiency by outperforming existing models in various tasks, even those it was not specifically trained for.

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Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech Project Brings AI-powered Speech Technology to more than 1,100+ Languages

Chris McKay• May 23, 2023 • 3 min read

The MMS project is more than another AI breakthrough. It's a landmark effort to protect the diversity of human languages and take communication technology to the next level.

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Meta Introduces ImageBind: An AI Model that Learns Across Six Modalities

Chris McKay• May 9, 2023 • 2 min read

Meta's latest AI model, ImageBind, learns from six different modalities to analyze and understand information holistically, pushing the boundaries of multimodal AI systems.

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Meta AI Unveils DINOv2: A Game-Changer in Self-Supervised Vision Transformer Models

Chris McKay• April 17, 2023 • 2 min read

Meta AI follows up on its Segment Anything release with DINOv2, a self-supervised model that's poised to redefine image processing across industries

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Meta AI Open Sources its Segment Anything (SA) Project

Chris McKay• April 5, 2023 • 3 min read

The project includes a new a new task, dataset, and SAM—a fascinating new model for image segmentation

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Meta AI's Internal Struggle Over Resources and Talent Retention

Meta Releases BELEBELE, A Multilingual AI Benchmark Spanning 122 Languages

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

Meta Releases Code Llama, Powerful Foundation Models for Coding

Meta Unveils SeamlessM4T for Near Universal Speech Translation

IBM to Make Meta's Llama 2 AI Model Available on Watsonx Platform

Meta Open Sources AudioCraft

Meta Releases Open Catalyst Demo to Help Discover Catalysts Faster With AI

Get Hands-On With Meta's New Llama 2 Chat

Big Tech's Trojan Horse: The Hidden Agenda Behind Open-Sourced AI

Meta Unveils CM3leon: A Breakthrough AI Model for Advanced Text-to-Image Generation and Image Understanding

Take a listen to Voicebox, Meta's new generative AI for speech

Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech Project Brings AI-powered Speech Technology to more than 1,100+ Languages

Meta Introduces ImageBind: An AI Model that Learns Across Six Modalities

Meta AI Unveils DINOv2: A Game-Changer in Self-Supervised Vision Transformer Models

Meta AI Open Sources its Segment Anything (SA) Project