Meta AI event in London: open-source AI, disinformation, and Llama 3
Meta AI’s London event this Tuesday saw Yann LeCun, Nick Clegg, and others discuss current topics in AI. Clegg, the former UK Deputy Prime Minister and…
By Sam Jeans · 3 min read
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Meta, UCSD introduce ToolVerifier to improve LLM tool calls
Researchers from Meta and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) developed ToolVerifier, a method that improves how LLMs call and interact with software tools. For…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Meta releases V-JEPA, a predictive vision model
Meta has released V-JEPA, a predictive vision model that is the next step toward Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun’s vision of advanced machine intelligence (AMI).…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Meta ups the ante in tackling AI deep fake content
Meta has announced new initiatives to enhance transparency around AI-generated content on its platforms. Writing in a blog post, Nick Clegg, Meta’s President for Global Affairs,…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
Zuckerberg says Meta is joining the race to build AGI
Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is joining the race for Artificial General Intelligence and that the company plans to make it open-source once it is achieved.…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Big tech firms massively outgunned venture capitalists in 2023
2023 has seen major tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon leading the charge in investment, particularly in generative AI startups. The evolution of generative AI…
By Sam Jeans · 3 min read
Imagine with Meta AI released as a standalone platform
Meta’s AI image generator has moved beyond the company’s social media platforms and is now a standalone product. “Imagine with Meta AI” doesn’t sound as snappy…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Meta releases Ego-Exo4D, a multimodal perception dataset
Training AI models like GPT-4 has relied mostly on datasets consisting of text and images. Meta’s Ego-Exo4D multimodal perception dataset presents data scientists with a rich…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Meta’s AI chief Yann LeCun argues that AGI is far from imminent
Meta AI’s chief, Yann LeCun, recently offered his perspective on developing AI superintelligence and quantum computing, providing his characteristic counterpoint to the prevailing industry sentiment. LeCun…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
System 2 Attention improves accuracy of LLM responses
Large Language Models (LLM) are often mislead by bias or irrelevant context in a prompt. Researchers at Meta have found a seemingly simple way to fix…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read