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Meta et IBM réunis pour promouvoir une approche open source du développement de l’IA
Technologie : L’alliance pour l’IA, qui compte 50 membres, promeut une IA responsable et open source. Google, Microsoft et OpenAI ont une vision différente.

Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos
"Imagine with Meta AI" turns prompts into images, trained using public Facebook data.
BENJ EDWARDS - 12/6/2023, 10:52 PM

On Wednesday, Meta released a free standalone AI image generator website, "Imagine with Meta AI," based on its Emu image synthesis model. Meta used 1.1 billion publicly visible Facebook and Instagram images to train the AI model, which can render a novel image from a written prompt. Previously, Meta's version of this technology—using the same data—was only available in messaging and social networking apps such as Instagram.

If you're on Facebook or Instagram, it's quite possible a picture of you (or that you took) helped train Emu. In a way, the old saying, "If you're not paying for it, you are the product" has taken on a whole new meaning. Although, as of 2016, Instagram users uploaded over 95 million photos a day, so the dataset Meta used to train its AI model was a small subset of its overall photo library.

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Move over OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Microsoft’s Prometheus—there’s yet another large language model-powered artificial intelligence in town. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, introduced its own AI today, called LLaMA. The animal-esque acronym predictably stands for Large Language Model Meta AI.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s Meta Connect conference today with expected, but still highly anticipated news: The company’s next virtual reality headset will be called the Meta Quest Pro, and will also be the first Quest product to offer a mixed reality experience, bringing the metaverse and the real world together.

As the name implies, the Meta Quest Pro isn’t going to be a replacement for the $400 Meta Quest 2, but a more advanced alternative that’s geared towards productivity and social applications in VR —instead of just fun, games, and unique 360-degree experiences— facilitated through significantly upgraded hardware.

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Meta Closes $1 Billion Kustomer Deal After Regulatory Review
Deal was announced in Nov. 2020, but faced regulatory scrutiny
Kustomer is part of Meta’s plan to profit from private chats

Meta Platforms Inc. was finally allowed to complete its acquisition of Kustomer, a customer service software company, after more than a year of antitrust scrutiny.

Meta, which owns Facebook, announced that the deal “complied with all regulatory requirements” in a blog update Tuesday. Meta first announced the acquisition, valued at more than $1 billion...

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Code Llama 70B can generate and debug larger programming strings than Meta’s previous models.

Récemment, les intelligences artificielles génératives ont montré leur aptitude pour « générer du texte, tenir des conversations, résumer des textes, et même exécuter des tâches plus complexes telles que la résolution de théorèmes mathématiques », relève le fondateur du réseau social — et Meta n’entend pas laisser le champ libre à ses rivaux dans un secteur de plus en plus stratégique.

As a platform company, our approach to workplace productivity and collaboration is to ensure the software experiences we deliver can benefit users on all their favorite devices. In that spirit, today we are announcing several ways we are partnering with Meta to provide customers with more choice and security as they venture into the metaverse.

First, we are bringing Mesh for Microsoft Teams to Meta Quest devices. Mesh for Teams builds on years of research and Microsoft Cloud innovation, from Azure Digital Twins to Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and Teams video meetings. It is designed to help people gather virtually in the place where work happens on any device, including smartphones, laptops and mixed-reality headsets. Mesh for Teams with Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2 devices will enable people to connect and collaborate as though they are together in person.

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Ever since Star Wars first showed space wizards talking to holograms, calling someone and chatting with their 3D simulacrum has become a staple of science fiction. But based on a patent application published in January, it sure looks like FacebookMeta is trying to make 3D conversations a reality right now — even if not quite the way George Lucas envisioned it.

With the disclaimer that many patents never end up becoming an actual product, the patent does hint at how Meta envisions the future of communication.

What’s the patent about?
Meta, then Facebook, filed a Patent Application in 2020 titled 3D Conversations in an Artificial Reality Environment. Specifically, the application outlines a pipeline for capturing and transmitting 3D representations of callers, “allowing conversation participants to appear as if face-to-face.” 

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