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Meta on Thursday announced the launch of an artificial intelligence model called Meta Motivo, which is designed to control the movements of humanoid digital intelligences to enhance metaverse experiences. Meta also released AI tools such as LCM, a large-scale conceptual model, and Video Seal, a video watermarking tool, and reiterated its commitment to continued investment in AI, AR and metaverse technologies. Note: Meta Motivo is a behavior-based base model trained in the Mujoco simulator using AMASS motion capture data...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted an update on Threads three days ago stating that with the help of Llama 3.3 models, Meta AI is now approaching 600 million monthly users. The Meta AI service, which launches in the fall of 2023, announced in October that it had surpassed the 500 million monthly users mark, and the release of Llama 3.3 has further enticed users to use, experience, and download Meta's models like Llama. ...

December 10, 2011 - The bottleneck in training AI models is no longer just about architecture design, but also about data management efficiency - Meta AI has launched an open-source scalable and high-performance data loading (SPDL) tool that ultimately speeds up AI training by improving data loading efficiency. The SPDL tool uses multi-threading technology to achieve high throughput and lower resource usage in the regular Python interpreter (without the free-threading option enabled), and is compatible with the Free-Threaded Python...

Meta's grand finale AI model of the year is here. Meta released Llama 3.3 yesterday (December 6), with 70 billion parameters, but with performance comparable to Llama 3.1, which had 405 billion parameters. Meta emphasizes that Llama 3.3 models are more efficient and less costly, and can be run on standard workstations, lowering operational costs while delivering high-quality Text AI solutions. Llama 3.3 models are optimized for multi-language support, with support for English, German, French, Italian,...

Meta became the latest tech giant to focus on nuclear energy when it announced on Tuesday local time that it is seeking nuclear energy developers to submit proposals to support its artificial intelligence and environmental goals, Reuters reported. More and more tech giants are looking at the potential of atomic energy as demand for electricity is expected to surge. Meta has said it plans to add 1 to 4 gigawatts of nuclear power capacity in the U.S. starting in the early 2030s. By comparison, standard U.S. nuclear power plants have a capacity of about 1 GW. In a statement, the company said, "We believe that nuclear energy will play an important role in achieving a cleaner, more reliable to...

OpenAI and Meta will begin training AI macromodels in African languages to address the shortage of models for the continent's thousands of dialects. The project, which also involves French telecom operator Orange SA, will launch in the first half of next year, 1AI understands. Initially, the company will focus on two West African languages, Wolof and Pulaar, which are spoken by 22 million people in the region. Orange SA eventually hopes to expand the program to more AI technology companies, building large-scale language models to help it engage with 18 markets in the Middle East and Africa...

In a press release last week, Meta announced that it has officially open sourced the MobileLLM family of small language models that run on smartphones, and has added three new parameterized versions of the family, 600M, 1B, and 1.5B to the project's GitHub project page (click here to visit). According to Meta researchers, the MobileLLM family of models, built for smartphones, claims to have a lean architecture and introduces "SwiGLU activation functions," "grouped-query attenuation," and a "new language model with a new language model. ...

The Financial Times published a blog post yesterday (Nov. 4) reporting that Meta had planned to build nuclear-powered AI data centers in the U.S., but the project hit a roadblock due to the discovery of rare bees. Note: Meta's goal is to utilize nuclear energy to support its growing AI computing needs. Nuclear energy is considered a low-carbon and efficient energy option for large-scale data processing needs. Sources say Mark Zuckerberg's Meta plans to strike deals with a number of nuclear power providers, though the proposed data center pick...

Meta has issued a press release describing its FAIR (Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research) team's research on robotic tactile perception, which aims to allow robots to further understand and manipulate external objects through tactile means. Meta said that the core of building appropriate AI robots is to allow the robot's sensors to perceive and understand the physical world, and at the same time use the "AI brain" to accurately control the robot's response to the physical world, while the team is currently developing robotic haptic sensing capabilities to allow the robot to detect the material and tactile sensation of the objects it interacts with, in order to allow AI to judge how the robot is responding to the physical world and how it is feeling. The team is currently developing the robot's tactile sensing capabilities to allow the robot to detect the material and touch of the objects it interacts with, so that it can let the AI judge...

The artificial intelligence industry is still struggling to reassure investors that the billions of dollars they're pouring into the technology are ultimately worth it. Microsoft and Meta acknowledged this week that capital expenditures will continue to rise as they rush to meet AI demand by building out data center capacity, Reuters reported. Shares of both companies fell on Wednesday, underscoring an inconvenient reality for AI-obsessed tech companies: tech companies have yet to turn generative AI into a meaningful revenue stream despite spending billions of dollars, making investors increasingly nervous. As chipmakers struggle to meet large...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on the Q3 earnings call that Meta is "working with the public sector to drive adoption of the Llama AI model across U.S. government agencies." This news raises a lot of questions: which government agencies will use Meta's AI models? What will these models be used for? Will there be any military use, and will Meta be paid at all? When reporters sought further explanation from Meta, spokesman Jon Carvill declined to provide any information beyond Zuckerberg's comments about the investment...

Technology media outlet The Information published a blog post yesterday (October 28) reporting that Meta is developing an AI search engine to reduce its dependence on Microsoft and Google on the one hand, and to catch up with OpenAI's development in the AI field on the other. The Meta AI bot built into Instagram and Facebook currently calls on Google's Google and Microsoft Bing search engines to answer users' questions about recent news and events, the outlet reported, citing...

Meta and Ray-Ban's collaboration on smart glasses has been making waves in Europe lately, with Meta's smart glasses outselling the traditional Ray-Ban in some stores even before the AI feature was introduced. According to the latest report, the smart glasses, called Ray-Ban Meta, have become the best-selling product in Ray-Ban stores at 60% Ray-Ban stores at 60%. The news comes from Stefano Grassi, the CFO of EssilorLuxottica, who in...

After shutting down Facebook's facial recognition feature three years ago due to privacy and regulatory pressures, Meta is now announcing that it is re-testing the service to combat "celebrity baiting" scams, Reuters reports. Meta said it will recruit about 50,000 public figures in the trial and automatically compare their Facebook avatars to images in suspected scam ads. If the images match and Meta determines the ads are scams, it will block them. Participating celebrities will be notified and, if they don't want to participate,...

Meta is adding AI bot chat memory to its WhatsApp instant messaging software, and in the app's latest Android beta (note: version 2.24.22.9), its built-in Meta AI is able to remember details of users' past conversations, which it claims will provide users with a more personalized and relevant experience that can compete with other vendors' messaging software. Competition with other vendors' communication software. The Meta AI is said to be able to recall a variety of personal information, including dietary preferences, birthdays, and specific communication style preferences. In addition, the AI can also remember the use of...

On October 15, Lenovo held its annual Tech World conference in Seattle, USA. In his keynote speech, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing, along with Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, announced that Lenovo and Meta have partnered to launch AI Now, a personal AI intelligence for PCs based on the Llama model. Zuckerberg said in his keynote speech via video that Lenovo and Meta have been working together for many years and have introduced many outstanding innovations. have been working together for many years and have introduced many remarkable innovations that bring breakthrough A...

Yann LeCun, Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist, said in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal that concerns about the threat of AI to human survival are "complete B.S." LeCun is a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, having won the Turing Award and currently serving as a professor at New York University and a senior researcher at Meta. LeCun is a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, winning the Turing Award and currently serving as a professor at New York University and a senior researcher at Meta. He has previously stated on social media that we need to figure out how to design a system smarter than a house cat before worrying about controlling superintelligent AI. LeCun picked up on...

Social media giant Meta posted a set of AI-generated images of the Northern Lights on Threads yesterday, suggesting that users use AI to "pretend" they saw the natural wonder. However, the suggestion was criticized by many users. Meta's post was designed to promote its AI service in light of Thursday night's rare sighting of the Northern Lights in the United States, which were seen above the Golden Gate Bridge, city skyline, and Ferris wheel. However, many users were unhappy with Meta's suggestion. Many believe that sharing photos of the Northern Lights is not just...

Meta has confirmed that photos and videos taken by users with Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses may be used to train its AI models, TechCrunch reports. Emil Vazquez, Meta's manager of policy communications, said in an email, "In regions where multimodal AI is available (currently the U.S. and Canada), images and videos shared with Meta AI may be used to improve our AI models, in accordance with our privacy policy." Earlier, a Meta spokesperson clarified that...

Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Meta today announced Movie Gen, a new AI video generator that produces high-definition videos with sound. A few months ago, its competitor OpenAI also launched its text-to-video model, Sora. Inputting text into Movie Gen automatically generates video, and it can also edit existing video or still images. According to the New York Times, the audio added to the video is also AI-generated, matching the video with ambient noise, sound effects and background music, and the video supports different aspect ratios...

At the just held Meta Connect2024 conference, Meta's founder and CEO Zuckerberg excitedly announced that Meta AI has almost 500 million monthly active users, and is expected to become the world's most used AI assistant. Zuckerberg mentioned in his speech, "We're currently at almost 500 million monthly active users and have yet to launch in some of the big markets, like Europe." This news certainly makes people look forward to the future of Meta AI. Meta is known to have revealed earlier that it has more than 400 million monthly active users worldwide...

At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference, Meta announced that the Ray-Ban smartglasses will receive a series of software updates to enhance the smart experience, as well as a limited edition clear frame. These new features include "Reminders," which allows the glasses to take a picture of their surroundings and alert the user later with a notification on their phone. Additionally, users can scan QR codes and dial phone numbers directly through the glasses. Meta Ray-Ban glasses already have the ability to extract text from still images and translate it. Now the company says it is...

According to Australia's ABC News, Meta has admitted to collecting public data on all Australian adults on its platform. However, unlike in the European Union, there is no "opt-out" option for users in Australia due to a lack of laws and regulations. Melinda Claybaugh, Meta's global privacy director, initially denied claims that user data from 2007 had been used for AI training in a local government investigation into the AI apps, but after being asked more questions, she...

Meta released a press release yesterday to disclose the downloads of its Llama open source AI model family on Hugging Face. In the last month alone (August 1-August 31), the number of downloads of the relevant models exceeded 20 million times. As of September 1, the global downloads of the Llama model family have exceeded 350 million times. According to IT Home, Meta released LLM Llama 3 in April this year and launched Llama 3.…