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Meta partners up with Arm to scale AI efforts
Semiconductor firm Arm is partnering with Meta to enhance the social media company's AI systems amid an unprecedented infrastructure buildout....
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- Meta is expanding its data center network with multiple projects, including 'Prometheus' and 'Hyperion', to meet anticipated demand for AI services.
- Arm's partnership with Meta doesn't involve ownership stakes or physical infrastructure exchange, setting it apart from recent AI infrastructure deals.
- Nvidia and AMD are also investing heavily in AI infrastructure, with Nvidia committing $100 billion to OpenAI and AMD supplying OpenAI with 6 gigawatts of compute capacity.
The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom
Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI....
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- Major tech companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon, and Oracle are investing heavily in AI infrastructure, forming partnerships and striking deals worth billions of dollars.
- The growth in AI infrastructure spending is putting immense strain on power grids and pushing the industry's building capacity to its limit.
- Companies are exploring alternative energy solutions and sustainability options, such as using local nuclear power plants and wind power, to support their massive data centers.
Apple's newly tapped head of ChatGPT-like AI web search to leave for Meta, Bloomberg News reports - Reuters
Apple's newly tapped head of ChatGPT-like AI web search to leave for Meta, Bloomberg News reports Reuters...
Palmer Luckey’s Anduril launches EagleEye military helmet with help from buddy Zuck
Anduril, the military tech company founded by Oculus creator Palmer Luckey, has announced the first hardware to come out of its recent partnership wit...
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- EagleEye features a modular hardware design with a heads-up display, spatial audio, and radio frequency detection.
- The system is designed to provide mission briefings, overlays maps, and control drones and robotics, aiming to be a 'new teammate' for soldiers.
- Anduril's partnership with Meta is a reunion for Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg, building on their previous collaboration through Meta's acquisition of Oculus.
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Anduril’s new EagleEye MR helmet sees Palmer Luckey return to his VR roots
Shaq, Sam Altman-backed college startup Campus taps former Meta AI head as CTO - CNBC
Shaq, Sam Altman-backed college startup Campus taps former Meta AI head as CTO CNBC...
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- The acquisition advances Campus's 'engineering roadmap by 2-3 years' and enables the platform to cater learning toward individual student needs.
- Campus offers accredited associate degrees taught by adjunct professors from top universities, with over 3,000 enrolled students and an annual fee of $7,320.
- The platform has raised over $100 million from notable investors, including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, and NBA star Shaquille O'Neal.
Meta’s new AI glasses spark concerns over student privacy - Scot Scoop News
Meta’s new AI glasses spark concerns over student privacy Scot Scoop News...
Meta is building a smart TV — in VR
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscriber...
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- Meta's Horizon TV app aims to attract older, less gaming-focused audiences to VR with a familiar smart TV-like interface.
- The app features content from partners such as Amazon, Pluto, and Peacock, but lacks support for popular streaming services like Netflix and Hulu.
- Meta plans to announce new partnerships and features, including more 3D content and live sports, to compete with traditional streaming companies.
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Meta wants its metaverse everywhere
Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people - The Guardian
Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people The Guardian...
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- Meta's adviser, Robby Starbuck, has connections to the Trump administration, raising questions about corporate America's capitulation to the Maga movement
- Starbuck has been accused of peddling lies and pushing extremism, which experts say is 'hard to believe' will help make Meta's platforms safer or better
- Meta's commitment to keeping LGBTQ+ people and others safe online is called into question by Starbuck's appointment, coupled with Meta's rollback of protections against hate speech
Meta’s ARE + Gaia2 Set a New Bar for AI Agent Evaluation under Asynchronous, Event-Driven Conditions
Meta AI has introduced Agents Research Environments (ARE), a modular simulation stack for creating and running agent tasks, and Gaia2, a follow-up ben...
Sentient AI Releases ROMA: An Open-Source and AGI Focused Meta-Agent Framework for Building AI Agents with Hierarchical Task Execution
Sentient AI has released ROMA (Recursive Open Meta-Agent), an open-source meta-agent framework for building high-performance multi-agent systems. ROMA...
Meta Tells Its Metaverse Workers to Use AI to ‘Go 5X Faster’
Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse chief is urging employees to adopt AI across every workflow as part of a broader shift inside the company....
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- Meta expects 80% of employees to integrate AI into their daily work routines by the end of the year.
- Implementing AI is mandatory, not just for engineers but also for non-technical roles like PMs and designers.
- Workers are expected to use AI to significantly increase their productivity, potentially leading to a shift in job responsibilities.
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Meta just dropped MobileLLM-Pro, a new 1B foundational language model on Huggingface
new 1B LLM by meta
Why has Meta research failed to deliver foundational model at the level of Grok, Deepseek or GLM?