• Meta Free AI Models and Integrating AI Ask Meta Query Into Facebook and Instagram

    Meta has put Meta AI front and center in the search bars for Facebook and Instagram that have served as key tools to find content from particular friends or creators. This is what the All-in-Podcast guys called scorched Earth for AI. This means almost no one will pay the $20 per month or other subscriptions

  • LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model

    Zuckerberg says new AI model "was still learning" when Meta stopped training.

  • Microsoft Recommends Risk-Based Approach to Releasing AI Foundation Models: Comments to US Govt’s Consultation

    the NTIA had earlier sought comments on the risks, benefits, and potential policy related to dual-use foundation models for which the model weights are widely available.

  • New Llama 3 LLM AI model released by Meta AI

    Meta’s recent unveiling of Llama 3, a new state-of-the-art large language model, signifies a groundbreaking leap forward in the realm of artificial intelligence. This powerful model comes in two distinct versions: an 8 billion parameter model and a more advanced 70 billion parameter variant. Llama 3 is engineered to drastically enhance the performance of AI-driven […]

  • Meta's newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users

    Facebook parent Meta Platforms unveiled a new set of artificial intelligence systems Thursday that are powering what CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use. But as Zuckerberg's crew of amped-up Meta AI agents started venturing into social media this week to engage with real people, their bizarre exchanges exposed the ongoing limitations of even the best generative AI technology. One joined a Facebook moms' group to talk about its gifted child....

  • Meta's newest AI model beats some peers, but its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users

    Facebook parent Meta Platforms unveiled a new set of artificial intelligence systems Thursday that are powering what CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls “the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use.” But as Zuckerberg's crew of amped-up Meta AI agents started venturing into social media this week to engage with

  • It will take a multi-year investment cycle before Meta’s AI offerings become profitable: Insights from Meta’s Earnings Call

    Zuckerberg expressed confidence in monetizing AI through methods like ads and paid access to larger models, leveraging Meta's successful history with scaled technologies.

  • Meta AI now has a dedicated website for chats: meta.ai, expands to 12 other countries

    Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) announced today the expansion of its AI assistant, Meta AI, to over a dozen new countries outside the US. This update makes Meta AI available in English in countries like Australia, Canada, South Africa, and Singapore. Here is the full list of the countries where Meta AI is being released:  Meta AI has been improved with […]

  • Apple Releases Open Source AI Models That Run On-Device

    Apple today released several open source large language models (LLMs) that are designed to run on-device rather than through cloud servers. Called OpenELM (Open-source Efficient Language Models), the LLMs are available on the Hugging Face Hub, a community for sharing AI code. As outlined in a white paper [PDF], there are eight total OpenELM models, four of which were pre-trained using the CoreNet library, and four instruction tuned models. Apple uses a layer-wise scaling strategy that is...

  • Meta AI Assistant Adds Website, Expands Beyond US

    Meta has introduced the latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Meta AI, powered by the latest advances with its large language model (LLM), Meta Llama 3. The assistant is free and can be used on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, the company said in a Thursday (April 18) press release. It’s also now available on a website, meta.ai, for use on computers, according to the release. In addition, Meta […]

  • Meta releases early versions of its Llama 3 AI model

    Meta Platforms on Thursday released early versions of its latest large language model, Llama 3, and an image generator that updates pictures in real time while users type prompts, as it races to catch up to generative AI market leader OpenAI. The models will be integrated into virtual assistant Meta AI, which the company is pitching as the most sophisticated of its free-to-use peers. The assistant will be given more prominent billing within Meta's Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger apps...

  • Meta releases Llama 3, the most powerful open LLM model

    Meta today announced the release of its next-generation large language model (LLM), Llama 3. According to standard benchmarks, LLama 3’s 8B and 70B parameter models are the most powerful model of its size which is available in the open for free. Meta claims that Llama 3 performs better than Claude Sonnet, Mistral Medium, and GPT-3.5. […]