VentureBeat

Meta’s Transfusion model handles text and images in a single architecture

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Multi-modal models that can process both text and images are a growing area of research in ...
eWeek

Meta Builds New AI ‘Data Engine’ Teams to Train Smarter Models

Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization to accelerate its superintelligence strategy and scale AI model development.
TechCrunch

Meta releases its biggest ‘open’ AI model yet

Meta’s latest open source AI model is its biggest yet. Today, Meta said it is releasing Llama 3.1 405B, a model containing 405 billion parameters. Parameters roughly correspond to a model’s problem-solving skills, and models with more parameters ...
Business Insider

Inside Meta's secret experiments that improve its AI models

A legal case involving Meta revealed the company's secret experiments with training data. Meta used "ablation" to identify how specific data improved its Llama AI models. Some researchers say this could support a system to assign value to AI data and pay ...
VentureBeat

Meta Introduces Spirit LM open source model that combines text and speech inputs/outputs

Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company’s first open-source multimodal language model capable of seamlessly integrating text and speech inputs and outputs. Designed by Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team ...
Ars Technica

LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model

On Thursday, Meta unveiled early versions of its Llama 3 open-weights AI model that can be used to power text composition, code generation, or chatbots. It also announced that its Meta AI Assistant is now available on a website and is going to be ...
Reuters

Meta releases AI model that can check other AI models' work

NEW YORK, Oct 18 - Facebook owner Meta (META.O), opens new tab said on Friday it was releasing a batch of new AI models from its research division, including a "Self-Taught Evaluator" that may offer a path toward less human involvement in the AI ...
CNBC

Meta debuts new Llama 4 models, but most powerful AI model is still to come

Meta released the first models from its latest open-source artificial intelligence software Llama 4, as the company scrambles to lead the race to invest in generative AI. But the Facebook owner said it has not yet released the biggest and most powerful ...
CNET

Meta Llama 4 Benchmarking Confusion: How Good Are the New AI Models?

Meta's Llama 4 models Maverick and Scout are out now, but they might not be the best models on the market. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI ...