Meta continues to sink billions of dollars a quarter into developing the metaverse, and is just now facing its first real competitive threat from Apple. In its fourth-quarter earnings report Thursday, …
Meta’s OK-Robot performs zero-shot pick-and-drop in unseen environments
There have been many advances in vision-language models (VLM) that can match natural language queries to objects in a visual scene. And researchers are experimenting with how these models can be …
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Nvidia’s Big Tech Rivals Put Their Own A.I. Chips on the Table
In September, Amazon said it would invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, a San Francisco start-up working on artificial intelligence. Soon after, an Amazon executive sent a private message to an …
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Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
OpenAI’s stated mission is to create this artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Demis Hassabis, the leader of Google’s AI efforts, has the same goal. Now, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is entering the …
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How AI Replaced the Metaverse as Zuckerberg’s Top Priority
In the summer of 2021, during a private moment at the Allen & Co. conference in the Idaho mountains, Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai complimented Mark Zuckerberg on a technological …
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Google Offers Enhanced Generative AI Features for Cloud Customers
Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced a slate of upgraded artificial intelligence features for its cloud-computing clients as the technology giant tries to catch up with rivals, including the allied forces …
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Meta Is Scraping Our Photos From Facebook And Instagram To Create AI Images
No one talks about the uncanny valley that much anymore — it’s that weird feeling you get when you look at a CGI image and it doesn’t quite look completely real. With AI image generation, there might …
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Meta Introduces Default End-To-End Encryption for Messenger and Facebook
Meta is introducing default end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for chats and calls across Messenger and Facebook, the company revealed on Wednesday. E2EE ensures that messages content is only visible to the …
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Meta announces Purple Llama initiative to promote responsible and safe generative AI development
Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to promote the responsible development of artificial intelligence systems with a new initiative called Purple Llama. Announced today, it’s a project that Meta says will …
Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s
Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft said at an AMD investor event Wednesday they will use AMD’s newest AI chip, the Instinct MI300X. It’s the biggest sign so far that technology companies are searching for …