Meta says its AI models have been downloaded nearly 350 million times since last year. That’s more than 10 times the downloads compared to this time in 2023, the social media giant said Thursday (Aug. 29), with more than 20 million downloads in the last...
A funny thing happened on the way to Meta’s Q2 earnings call. As it has for many tech companies during this earnings season, discussion of actual financial results took a back seat to discussions about spending on artificial intelligence (AI). With this in mind, Meta...
Industry experts are debating the business impact of Meta’s free artificial intelligence (AI) model Llama 3.1, weighing its potential against practical implementation challenges. Boasting 405 billion parameters, the AI model claims performance comparable to proprietary competitors like GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. As Meta expands...
Meta has launched “Purple Llama,” a project tied to its Llama artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Announced Thursday (Dec. 6), Purple Llama centers around safety tools and evaluations to help developers build responsibly with their AI models. “Why purple? Borrowing a concept from the cybersecurity world, we believe that...
July 31, 2024
A funny thing happened on the way to Meta’s Q2 earnings call. As it has for many tech companies during this earnings season, discussion of actual financial results took a back seat to discussions about spending on artificial intelligence (AI). With this in mind, Meta and Zuckerberg did not disappoint. Yes, there were financial results […]
July 27, 2023
Meta’s investments in tomorrow are running up tens of billions in losses today. But while the tech giant’s Reality Labs segment, responsible for the metaverse and other longshot bets, has...
September 25, 2024
Meta’s Llama 3.2 multilingual large language models (LLMs) are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker and via Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia. This availability will offer AWS customers more options for building, deploying and scaling generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications, Amazon said in a Wednesday (Sept. 25) update. “The Llama 3.2 collection builds […]
August 29, 2024
Meta says its AI models have been downloaded nearly 350 million times since last year. That’s more than 10 times the downloads compared to this time in 2023, the social...
December 07, 2023
Meta has launched “Purple Llama,” a project tied to its Llama artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Announced Thursday (Dec. 6), Purple Llama centers around safety tools and evaluations to help developers build responsibly with...
