There’s a lot of excitement about Meta AI in rural India: global chief product officer Chris Cox
While aiming to build AI compute capacity, India should also invest in building the right infrastructure needed to support it, such as clean energy, said Cox, 42, who joined Facebook in 2005 as one of the first 15 engineers at the company and became chief product officer in 2014.
Meta unveils voice mode: You can now talk to and share photos with Meta AI
Over 400 million people are using Meta AI, out of which 185 million people are using it across Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram each week, the company said at the Meta Connect event at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
WhatsApp getting AI assistants for small companies to customise ads
After disrupting the SMS channel, WhatsApp is piloting calling functionality for large enterprises, which could cause a channel shift from IVR telephony currently used for customer services.
Almost all our advertisers in India using products powered by AI: Meta Exec Nicola Mendelsohn
Meta AI is experiencing significant growth in India, with high engagement across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Vice President Nicola Mendelsohn highlights the innovative use of AI in these platforms, particularly with Reels and WhatsApp's business applications. India leads in adopting Meta's large language model, LLaMA, and businesses are seeing substantial returns on AI-powered advertising investments.
OpenAI, Meta flex muscles as AI race heats up
The pressure to show that the wider public is adopting ChatGPT-style AI chatbots is significant given the huge costs of delivering the technology. Facebook-owner Meta meanwhile on Friday said that usage of AI features across its platforms had jumped to 400 million monthly users and 185 million every week.
Meta’s Llama models hit 350 million downloads, leads open-source AI
Besides the community platform Hugging Face, Llama was also being accessed through Meta’s cloud partners such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft’s Azure, Databricks, Dell, Google Cloud, Groq, NVIDIA, IBM watsonx, Scale AI, Snowflake, to name a few.
Cloud analytics firm Snowflake raises annual product revenue forecast, unchanged margins weigh on shares
Snowflake executives said on a post-earnings conference call that they left the margin forecast unchanged partly due to the firm awaiting the deployments of certain GPUs. The company now expects product revenue of $3.36 billion for fiscal 2025, up from its prior forecast of $3.30 billion.
AI startup Sarvam AI unveils mix of open source, enterprise products
Sarvam AI, an AI startup from Bengaluru, introduced new generative AI products. Key offerings include Sarvam Agents, Sarvam 2B, Shuka 1.0, Sarvam Models, and A1. Sarvam will partner with the likes of Yotta, Nvidia, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Exotel for these services and products.
How chip giant Intel spurned OpenAI and fell behind the times
In 2017-2018, Intel deliberated over investing in OpenAI, but ultimately declined. Then-CEO Bob Swan was skeptical about the market readiness of generative AI. This missed chance, among others, has seen Intel lagging behind competitors like Nvidia and AMD, struggling to reclaim its former dominance in the AI landscape.
Meta just launched the largest 'open' AI model in history: here's why it matters
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, took up the fight for open-source AI in a big way by releasing a new collection of large AI models. These include a model named Llama 3.1 405B, which Meta's founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, says is "the first frontier-level open source AI model". In the case of ChatGPT, its parent company, OpenAI, releases neither the dataset nor code of its latest AI tools to the public.
Meta to let users to create custom AI characters
Meta Platforms launched AI Studio, which lets users design and share personalized AI chatbots. Built on Llama 3.1, this tool allows customized AI characters, assisting Instagram creators with common DM questions. Users can share their AI characters on Meta's platforms. Llama 3.1 competes with paid models from rivals like OpenAI.
Govt’s crackdown on financial fraud; Singapore new visa framework explained
Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre has shut illegal loan websites to prevent the increasing number of financial frauds. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
Mark Zuckerberg, AI's 'open source' evangelist
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and CEO of Meta, has become an unexpected evangelist for open source technology when it comes to developing artificial intelligence, pitting him against OpenAI and Google. That concern has now spread to generative AI, but this time it is Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google that are the closed-fence culprits that charge developers and keep a tight lid on their AI technology.
Meta unveils biggest Llama 3 AI model, touting language and math gains
Meta’s Llama 3, featuring 405 billion parameters, rivals OpenAI and Amazon. Enhanced coding and math, scoring 73.8 on MATH and 88.6 on MMLU, boost its appeal. Future multimodal versions will incorporate text, image, video, and speech. The Meta AI chatbot, gaining popularity, promises efficiency and attracts developers.
Meta Platforms to use social media posts from Europe to train AI
Meta Platforms plans to incorporate social media content from Europe to train its generative AI models using Llama large language models. NYOB challenges the move in Europe due to insufficient notifications about data usage.
Yellow.ai launches model-as-a-service through Orchestrator LLM
Yellow.ai's Orchestrator LLM combines 15 AI models for enterprise tasks, enhancing customer conversations. It reduces operational costs, boosts agent productivity, and caters to global enterprises like Sony, Domino's, and Hyundai.
Meta releases early versions of its Llama 3 AI model
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.
Meta plans launch of new AI language model Llama 3 in July: report
Meta Platforms plans to release Llama 3 in July with improved responses to contentious questions and an understanding of controversial queries. Gemini AI paused its image-generation feature. Meta's Llama 2 refuses less controversial questions. Meta plans to appoint someone for tone and safety training.
Meta used copyrighted books for AI training despite lawyers' warnings, allege authors
A new complaint, filed on Monday, includes chat logs of a Meta-affiliated researcher discussing the procurement of the dataset in a Discord server, a potentially significant piece of evidence indicating that Meta was aware that its use of the books may not be protected by US copyright law.
Meta to introduce watermarking feature for some AI products
The social media firm rolled out products infused with artificial intelligence (AI) for consumers, including bots that create photo-realistic images and smart glasses that answer questions, in late September.
OpenAI spat highlights perils of leaning on a single GenAI tool
The dependence on OpenAI explains why founders hugely invested in businesses dependent on OpenAI’s tech were extremely concerned.
Pulitzer winner Michael Chabon, other authors sue Meta over AI copyright issues
Chabon, Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and authors Matthew Klam, Rachel Louise Snyder and Ayelet Waldman in a lawsuit said Meta taught the Llama large-language model to respond to human text prompts with datasets that included pirated versions of their writings.
Meta to launch AI model for writing computer codes
Code Llama, which will be available for free, can write code based on human text prompts and can also be used for code completion and debugging, the social media giant said in a blogpost.
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