When the news emerged Thursday that someone had bought the Onion, the beloved satirical news outlet, details were sparse and strange. A message from G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller to staff, shared by Axios media reporter Sara Fischer, simply said that G/O had sold the Onion to a Chicago-based firm made up of “four digital media veterans” called Global Tetrahedron. If the name feels gag-worthy, it is: The satirical paper has used the name for years in parodies of ridiculous business practices. But...
Top tech and government leaders will huddle in Washington next week to formulate plans to ensure the U.S. takes charge of the global artificial intelligence race and shapes emerging tech developments.
Meta’s new large language model, Llama 3, powers the imaginatively named “Meta AI,” a newish chatbot that the social media and advertising company has installed in as many of its apps and interfaces as possible. How does this model stack up against other all-purpose conversational AIs? It tends to regurgitate a lot of web search […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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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
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Meta has recently released a large language model, Llama 3, that powers "Meta AI," which is a chatbot that has been implemented into several of the company's social media apps. But some in the tech world have noted that it is free to use, which, unfortunately, reflects the quality of the artificially intelligent bot. Tech Crunch reported that the chatbot "tends to regurgitate a lot of web search results, and it doesn't excel at anything, but hey — the price is right."Meta AI can currently be...
Making life better for people with disabilities is a laudable goal, but accessibility tech hasn’t traditionally been popular among VCs. In 2022, disability tech companies attracted around $4 billion in early-stage investments, which was a fraction of fintech’s intake, for example. One reason is that disability tech startups are often considered too niche to attain […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Performance was consistent at Microsoft's Azure and Google Cloud, which grew above expectations at 31 percent and 28 percent, respectively, in the first three months of the year