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Rob Fergus is the new head of Meta-FAIR! FAIR is refocusing on Advanced Machine Intelligence: what others would call human-level AI or AGI. https://x.com/ylecun/status/1920556537233207483

Exclusive | Meta Is Delaying the Rollout of Its ‘Behemoth’ AI Model – WSJ https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-is-delaying-the-rollout-of-its-flagship-ai-model-f4b105f7

Judge on Meta’s AI training: “I just don’t understand how that can be fair use” – Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/judge-on-metas-ai-training-i-just-dont-understand-how-that-can-be-fair-use/

Rowan Cheung on X: “Meta AI dropped Meta Perception Language Model, an open & reproducible vision-language AI for challenging visual tasks It can watch videos and extract details like what a person is doing in the content and how they are doing it https://t.co/JSbbgCukRI” / X
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We’re releasing model weights for our 8B- parameter Dynamic Byte Latent Transformer, an alternative to traditional tokenization methods with the potential to redefine the standards for language model efficiency and reliability. Learn more about how Dynamic Byte Latent https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1921966366707613924

Announcing the newest releases from Meta FAIR. We’re releasing new groundbreaking models, benchmarks, and datasets that will transform the way researchers approach molecular property prediction, language processing, and neuroscience. 1️⃣ Open Molecules 2025 (OMol25): A dataset https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1922690879279808572

Introducing Meta 3D AssetGen 2.0: A new foundation model for 3D content creation | Meta Horizon OS Developers https://developers.meta.com/horizon/blog/AssetGen2

Meta AI launched Locate 3D, an AI for 3D object localization Particularly useful in robotics, it can help humanoids and other systems understand and interact more naturally with their surroundings Model, data, and code are all available on HF https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1921815727197012383

Introducing Meta Locate 3D: a model for accurate object localization in 3D environments. Learn how Meta Locate 3D can help robots accurately understand their surroundings and interact more naturally with humans. You can download the model and dataset, read our research paper, https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1920516490182471818

llama.cpp has vision language model support now! ❤️‍🔥 get started with sota VLMs (gemma 3, Qwen2.5VL, InternVL3 & more) and serve them wherever you want 🤩 https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1921471242852331719

Meta taps former Google DeepMind director to lead its AI research lab | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/08/meta-taps-former-google-deepmind-director-to-lead-its-ai-research-lab/

Introducing Meta Perception Language Model (PLM): an open & reproducible vision-language model tackling challenging visual tasks. Learn more about how PLM can help the open source community build more capable computer vision systems. Read the research paper, and download the https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1920153975921521018

Meet the winners of our first-ever LlamaCon Hackathon https://ai.meta.com/blog/llamacon-hackathon/

Meta can’t be serious about AI. – Go to Meta AI to test Llama 4 – Attach a pic -> prompt ignores it – Try to log in -> fail, show me a Facebook logo At this point, it’s not just a Llama 4 issue, it’s Meta’s skill issue. Also… who’s still using Facebook? How is it still the https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1922696849741447421

Sharing new breakthroughs and artifacts supporting molecular property prediction, language processing, and neuroscience https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fair-science-new-open-source-releases/

Meta AI debuted two new products: —A framework to improve collaborative reasoning in LLMs and enable social agents —An 8B param Dynamic Byte Latent Transformer that serves as an efficient and reliable alternative to traditional tokenization methods https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1922201217318457778

let’s gooo – ByteDance dropped SeedCoder 8B (Instruct & Reasoning) – Beats Qwen Coder AND DeepSeek Coder – MIT Licensed 🔥 Works out of the box with Transformers, llama.cpp and vLLM 🤗 https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1921128481229812221

Trying out llama.cpp’s new vision support https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/10/llama-cpp-vision/

Multimodal on-device! Llama.cpp does vision now https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1921211454453088620

NICE! @PrimeIntellect open sourced Intellect 2 – 32B reasoning model post-trained using GRPO via distributed asynchronous RL – beats QwQ 32B – Apache 2.0 licensed💥 Works with transformers, llama.cpp, vllm and more! ⚡ https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1921948704061202725

Here are the top AI Papers of the Week (May 5 – 11): – ZeroSearch – Discuss-RAG – Absolute Zero – Llama-Nemotron – The Leaderboard Illusion – Reward Modeling as Reasoning Read on for more:”” / X https://x.com/dair_ai/status/1921606662214787114

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