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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
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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.
AI
Meta’s new “CRAG” benchmark exposes depth of RAG challenge
Tests highlight stubborn hallucination and latency issues
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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"
News
Europol and National Crime Agency slam Meta over end to end encryption rollout
Meta helps bring together police chiefs… to slate Meta
News
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.
LLMs
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..."
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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
AI
Meta’s Llama 2 AI is free and not just for research -- but it's not open source
It is a generous and permissive licence, but prohibits the use of Llama to “improve any other large language model; excluding Llama 2” and users must request a special commercial licence if their product's MAU exceed 700 million.
AI
Meta says its new AI is too dangerous to release - but fingerprinting synthetic speech may support safe deployment
Create a convincing simulacrum of your CEO's voice with just a two-second voice sample. What could go wrong?
Enterprise IT
Meta to spend up to $33 billion on AI, as Zuckerberg pledges open approach to LLMs
AI recommendations are driving monetisation says Zuck, as Meta turns a corner
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Meta’s “Horizon” virtual world may be about to explode. Here's why
Meta's burning through billions building a "metaverse" -- it might be about to start getting users too...