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The ChatGPT maker was about to release its first major open-weight model, but a last-minute discovery has put the project on ice, fueling speculation about what went wrong.
Meta is adding yet another top A.I. expert to the company’s rapidly growing roster of talent, much of it plucked from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Apple now joins the mix of disgruntled competitors, with researcher Ruoming Pang leaving the iPhone maker to join Mark Zuckerberg ’s push toward advanced forms of A.I.
Meta said it planned to spend $60–65 billion in AI-related capital expenditures this year — up from $35–40 billion in 2024.
OpenAI is the world's leading AI startup. For how long will depend on how well it fends off multi-front attacks from competitors like Meta and Google.
Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model. This would mark a major philosophical shift for Meta.
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Interesting Engineering on MSNMeta reveals plans for giant AI superclusters to outpace OpenAI and GoogleMeta Platforms Inc., the technology conglomerate behind Facebook, is going all-in on artificial intelligence infrastructure. CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced plans to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” into building some of the world’s largest AI superclusters.
As tech giants compete for talents, the AI gold rush displaces programmers and software engineers whose jobs were once envied. Employees and students need to upskill.
Meta has hired Vercept co-founder and computer vision researcher Matt Deitke to join its Superintelligence Lab, part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s push to build advanced AI systems.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the open ChatGPT model’s release date has been delayed again, and it's all about AI safety.