a Facebook office in a forest with a trail sign that reads “Meta” –ar 5:3 –style raw
This week’s category cover theme is a sign in a forest. Each category image prompt is a derivative of the formula “an [category themed object] in a forest with a trail sign that reads “[category name]”. Using a theme each week takes the cover creation time down to about 20 minutes, rather than several hours.
“The first open-source implementation of the paper that will change automatic test generation is now available! In February, Meta published a paper introducing a tool to automatically increase test coverage, guaranteeing improvements over an existing code base. This is a big
Meta’s Zuckerberg Creates Council to Advise on AI Products – Bloomberg
“8/ finally, Meta absolutely benefits if its models approach AGI. this piece is both a total misread of Meta’s level of ambition (share of consumer attention), and also a weird read of…how useful AGI is?” / X
Meta AI chief says large language models will not reach human intelligence
How Meta AI’s news summaries could damage the industry – The Washington Post – https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/22/meta-ai-news-summaries/
Should Meta open-source Llama 3 400B or not?
“Meta open-sourcing Llama-3 400b will make them the biggest hero of our age! Nothing is more important or more urgent!” / X
“Meta plans to not open the weights for its 400B model. The hope is that we would quietly not notice / let it slide. Don’t let it slide.” / X
“Head of Ted is calling Meta reckless for releasing Open source models. While its a fact that Meta is really the leader for OSS contributions. Beyond Llama-3 – we have all the below from them (and this not an exhaustive list) – React – PyTorch – React Native – GraphQL – Jest –

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This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #34: Week Ending 05/24/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 47 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
- 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/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
For previous issues, please visit the archives!

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