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Meta just released the third generation of its SAM series, which stands for "segment anything models." These AI models are focused on visual intelligence, and they will power improvements to how you edit content on Meta's platforms.
The Facebook and Instagram parent is ‘trying to punch above its weight’ as it races to compete with its fellow tech giants, says one Wall Street analyst firm. Meta Platforms has been spending too aggressively on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and that will affect the tech giant’s profitability,
One of the pioneers in the current AI boom has had disagreements with fellow engineers over the future of AI.
The market has been quite unforgiving to the big names in AI, especially those with hefty AI spending plans. As Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) looks at more elevated AI expenditures in the new year, the Magnificent Seven darling and one of the more aggressive AI spenders might be poised to stay in the penalty box for
Thinking Machines Lab, led by Mira Murati, hires Meta AI veteran Soumith Chintala as it rapidly expands its team and prepares for major funding.
This significant drop indicates renewed worries among investors concerning the company’s aggressive expenditure on both AI infrastructure and its Reality Labs division.
One of the most important AI scientists in Big Tech wants to scrap the current approach to building human-level AI. What we need, Yann LeCun has indicated, are not large language models, but “world models.
Soumith Chintala has spent nearly a decade at Meta AI, where he worked on deep learning, computer vision, and next-generation neural network architectures.
This tech giant may have underperformed the tech sector this year, but investors are missing the bigger picture.