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Meta Llama 3.1 405B LLM trained on mammoth GPU farm

Find out where Mark Zuckerberg might be spending his beefed-up capex budget of up to $40 billion

Jasper Hamill July 24, 2024

EU

European Commission

Meta suffers major blow to critical ad model as EU threatens huge fines

Company formerly known as Facebook slammed over "pay or consent" model which "fails to comply" with EU rules designed to stimulate competition in digital markets.

Jasper Hamill July 01, 2024

Meta’s new “CRAG” benchmark exposes depth of RAG challenge

AI

RAG

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Meta’s new “CRAG” benchmark exposes depth of RAG challenge

Tests highlight stubborn hallucination and latency issues

Edward Targett June 19, 2024

A requiem for Workplace by Facebook: The CIO’s leftfield choice

"It became a Fortune 500-heavy, frontline-friendly business by accident. We thought only tech companies would use Workplace, until Clay Johnson, back then CIO of Walmart, told us he wanted Workplace for 100% of their employees"

Edward Targett May 15, 2024

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encryption

law enforcement

Europol and National Crime Agency slam Meta over end to end encryption rollout

Meta helps bring together police chiefs… to slate Meta

Joe Fay April 22, 2024

Meta launches Llama 3: Puts its GPUs to work on Llama 4

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LLMs

Llama 3

Meta launches Llama 3: Puts its GPUs to work on Llama 4

The LLM arms race continues: Don't bet against the company spending $33 billion per year on GPUs.

Azania Imtiaz Patel April 19, 2024

Llama 3 is in training – as Meta vows to add another 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to its infrastructure this year

Llama 3 is in training – as Meta vows to add another 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to its infrastructure this year

Goldman Sachs CIO says "there’s a great opportunity for capital to move towards the application layer, the toolset layer. I think we will see that shift happening..."

Edward Targett January 19, 2024

Zuck’s revenge: Facebook lives, Llama downloads hit 30m monthly, net revenues top $11.58 billion

Mark Zuckerberg

earnings

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Zuck’s revenge: Facebook lives, Llama downloads hit 30m monthly, net revenues top $11.58 billion

CapEx to hit up to $35 billion “with growth driven by investments in servers, including both non-AI and AI hardware

Edward Targett October 26, 2023