Meta

“Meta just announced that multimodal capabilities are rolling out to smart glasses. Meaning it’ll be able to understand visual surroundings through the built-in camera. Some usecases include translating text, identifying objects, or providing other context-specific information  https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1782954952467288535 

“Starting today, we’re rolling out Meta AI with Vision on Ray-Ban Meta. Details on the new styles, features and more we announced this morning ➡️  https://twitter.com/AIatMeta/status/1782806362805903621

New Ray-Ban | Meta Smart Glasses Styles and Meta AI Updates | Meta – https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/new-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-styles-and-meta-ai-updates/

“Multimodal Meta AI is rolling out widely on Ray-Ban Meta starting today! It’s a huge advancement for wearables & makes using AI more interactive & intuitive. Excited to share more on our multimodal work w/ Meta AI (& Llama 3), stay tuned for more updates coming soon.  https://twitter.com/Ahmad_Al_Dahle/status/1782803345914413453

“Zuck deciding that Meta should be a better Google than Google is such a fascinating turn.  https://twitter.com/seyitaylor/status/1782436141100126586 

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will offer its virtual reality OS to hardware companies – https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/22/mark-zuckerberg-says-meta-will-offer-its-virtual-reality-os-to-hardware-companies.html

“As predicted, Meta starts opening their VR/AR OS to other hardware companies.  https://twitter.com/BenBajarin/status/1782443180371349780

A New Era for Mixed Reality | Meta Quest Blog | Meta Store – https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/meta-horizon-os-open-hardware-ecosystem-asus-republic-gamers-lenovo-xbox/

“Meta Horizon OS Meta already sells the Quest systems basically at production cost, and just ignores the development costs, so don’t expect this to result in cheaper VR headsets from other companies with Quest equivalent capabilities. Even if the other companies have greater…” / X – https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1782826465207165288

Gaussian Splatting and Nerfs

“We’re proud to showcase some recent real-time work with 3D / 4D Gaussian splatting. In January of 2024 we acquired a full 3DGS commercial license with Inria to allow us to offer 4DGS services to clients around the world. We’ve spent the last 10 months developing our custom…  https://twitter.com/8Infinite8/status/1781717078342353334 

3D Modeling

6Img-to-3D – https://6img-to-3d.github.io/

Blockade Labs improves quality for AI-generated 3D art for 360-degree apps | VentureBeat – https://venturebeat.com/ai/blockade-labs-improves-quality-for-ai-generated-3d-art-for-360-degree-apps/

Other AR/VR News

“Here’s more about how and why I made REID AI, an AI-generated version of myself:  https://twitter.com/reidhoffman/status/1783145011217056165 

“Introducing FaceFolds, a novel volumetric representation of dynamic face sequences that can be rendered efficiently on legacy graphics platforms without any neural network integration! Joint collaboration between @GoogleARVR, @MIT, and @ETH. Project page:…  https://twitter.com/safamedin/status/1782885952626782673

Me, myself, and (A)I: a Q&A with my AI avatar | LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/me-myself-ai-qa-my-avatar-reid-hoffman-71unf/ 

Reid Hoffman meets his AI twin – Full – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgD2gmwCS10 

“ 🤖Introducing Open Television: a web-based teleoperation software!  🌐Open source, cross-platform (VisionPro & Quest) with real-time stereo vision feedback.  🕹️Easy-to-use hand, wrist, head pose streaming. Code:  https://twitter.com/xuxin_cheng/status/1783838823849546067

Taming Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Character Control – https://aiganimation.github.io/CAMDM/

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AI News #30: Week Ending 04/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 39 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Mobile
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/
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