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Meta

🌎 meta.com

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. Originally launched as Facebook in 2004, the company has evolved to include apps like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and is now focusing on immersive experiences such as augmented and virtual reality. Meta aims to create a safe online space that fosters community and constructive conversations.

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Meta - Latest News and Updates

• Meta is expanding its AI assistant powered by Llama to more countries on WhatsApp.
• Meta AI has released MobileLLM, a set of open-source language models optimized for mobile devices, on Hugging Face, emphasizing deep, thin architectures for improved AI performance, as highlighted by Yann LeCun, Meta's Chief AI Scientist.
• Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist for Meta, is an advisor at Ataraxis and contributed to developing its technical approach.
• Meta launched Meta Movie Gen, an AI tool for creating videos and sounds, in collaboration with Blumhouse and filmmakers like Aneesh Chaganty, with plans for public release next year.
• Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is developing a search engine using its AI chatbot to provide conversational answers about current events on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook, leveraging a partnership with Reuters for real-time news content.

• Meta has formed a strategic partnership with Cornerstone OnDemand to enhance immersive learning and extended reality using artificial intelligence.
• Meta announced updates for Facebook and Messenger, expanded Meta AI to more countries and languages, and began testing new anti-scam measures in October.
• Ruslan Salakhutdinov is the Vice President of Generative AI Research at Meta, and Yann LeCun serves as the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, leading research efforts and shaping AI development.
• Sebastian Ament, Elizabeth Santorella, David Eriksson, Ben Letham, Maximilian Balandat, and Eytan Bakshy from Meta co-authored a paper on robust Gaussian processes via relevance pursuit.
• Meta plans to release its Llama 4 AI model early next year, aiming to enhance reasoning capabilities and compete with leading models like OpenAI's GPT-4, as part of its strategic investment in AI infrastructure, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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