Llama 2 is the Best Open Source LLM so Far

Llama 2 is a collection of pretrained and fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) ranging in scale from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters. Meta fine-tuned LLMs, called Llama 2-Chat, are optimized for dialogue use cases. The models outperform open-source chat models on most benchmarks they tested, and based on their human evaluations for helpfulness and …

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Apple Vision Pro is Ten Times the Price of Meta Quest 2

Apple today unveiled Apple Vision Pro, a revolutionary spatial computer that is their answer to Meta Oculus. Apple Vision Pro can transform any space into a personal movie theater with a screen that feels 100 feet wide and an advanced Spatial Audio system. Users can watch movies and TV shows, or enjoy stunning three-dimensional movies. …

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Six Big AI Projects in the Race Beyond 2 Trillion Parameters

There are six major AI projects in the race beyond 2 trillion parameter models. There is OpenAI, Anthropic, Google/Deepmind, Meta, a UK government project and a stealth project. It takes $1-2 billion per year of resources to be in the game. There is $1 billion needed for hardware and that hardware will need to be …

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Zuckerberg’s Meta Copies Musk’s Twitter Layoffs

Zuckeberg’s Meta will layoff thousands of workers this week. Elon Musk has begun firing about half of the workforce of Twitter. Twitter was losing $4 million per day. The layoff of 3500 workers enables Twitter to reduce the losses by $2 million per day. Twitter will also need to get another $1 billion per year …

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Meta Text to Video Generator

Meta Make-A-Video research builds on the recent progress made in text-to-image generation technology built to enable text-to-video generation. The system uses images with descriptions to learn what the world looks like and how it is often described. It also uses unlabeled videos to learn how the world moves. With this data, Make-A-Video lets you bring …

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Meta Putting Discord-Like Chat into Messenger

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced “Community Chats” are coming to Messenger and Facebook Groups. Community Chat is similar to Discord. It allows large Messenger groups to organize chats into categories, including audio and video channels for real-time discussion, admin-only chats for announcements and event chats. Most people use feeds to discover content and use messaging …

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