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Meta AI News: Week Ending 04/26/2024

April 27, 2024

iphone photo. a ninja in a blue outfit wearing VR goggles with the Google logo in an office –ar 5:3

Meta loses $200 billion in value, Zuckerberg focuses on AI, metaverse – https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/meta-loses-200-billion-in-value-zuckerberg-focuses-on-ai-metaverse.html

“meta down 15% despite making $36B because all of it just gets poured into GPUs now https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1783262638778278240

“Meta lost 10% of its employees last year, has a weak forecast for Q2, and is planning to spend billions on AI. Stock down 15% Zuck is also planning to focus on the adoption of Meta AI first and revenue later. Translation – we are coming for Google’s cash cow – search IMO,… https://twitter.com/bindureddy/status/1783296389671444521

“AI Showdown 🤯🚀 @AIatMeta’s LLama 3 70B on @GroqInc blows out of the water Claude Opus and GPT-4 Turbo on combined Speed/Price/Quality dimension at avg 200 tokens per second (real life measurements). Read more here 👇 https://twitter.com/avysotsky/status/1781458937981829426

“Meta’s Llama 3 has ascended the AI model rankings. On English prompts, the open model topped GPT-4 on the LMSYS LLM leaderboard. Major milestone for open-source LLMs. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1782251056119885961

“llama 3 is an english-first model filter the lmsys leaderboard for english prompts only and 70B instruct beats opus, sonnet, and online gemini pro https://twitter.com/morqon/status/1781289685358088671

Llama-3 may have just killed proprietary AI models · Kadoa · AI Web Scraper – https://www.kadoa.com/blog/llama3-killed-proprietary-models

“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/

“Best LLM value proposition right now is @GroqInc with @Meta Llama-3-70b-instruct Especially if you value speed!💨 https://twitter.com/benfleming__/status/1781609335170215983

“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

“Llama-3 is closing the gap with GPT-4, but multimodal models gotta catch up. Vision capabilities of open models like LlaVA are far, far behind GPT-4V. Video models are even worse. They hallucinate all the time and fail to give detailed descriptions of complex scenes and actions.…” / X – https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1782072699705250204

“Meta releasing near gpt-4 level models is really driving the price of tokens down because anyone can take the weights and optimize the runtime eg groq, togetherapi, fireworks etc. Definitely not good for OpenAI” / X – https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1781443464246559180

“Llama3 (8b) performs much better than the code-focused on CodeLlama 7b in my tests so far – both for SQL generation and general programming tasks Amazing to see in a model that’s also has world knowledge. Makes it a great base for both agent planning and SQL-generation tasks.…” / X – https://twitter.com/rishdotblog/status/1781208858612138329

“I think Meta and Llama-3 is the final nail in the coffin to several misconceptions I’ve been fighting against for the last year. Llama-3 Chat was trained on over 10M Instruction/Chat samples, and is one of the only finetunes that shows significant improvements to MMLU.… https://twitter.com/Teknium1/status/1781345814633390579

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

“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

“Meta researchers developed RA-DIT, a fine-tuning method that enhances the performance of large language models (LLMs) using retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Read our summary of the paper in #TheBatch: https://twitter.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1782907305748578360

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