Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he is merging the company’s two advanced AI divisions to fast-track developments on general-purpose AI chatbots. The reshuffling announced in an Instagram reel video signals Meta’s intent to dominate consumer-facing AI products and further
Meta has introduced another AI concept into the metaverse industry. According to a recent tweet by Allen T., an AI educator and developer, the company released a new framework called Audio2Photoreal. Audio2Photoreal is a framework for generating full-bodied photorealistic avatars
Major tech companies like Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and others are racing to integrate multimodal AI to build smart glasses and other wearable devices with front-looking cameras. Multimodal AI is a powerful form of the technology that combines many sources of
New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez has filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, accusing them of failing to adequately protect young users from sexual predators. The lawsuit, filed in state court, alleges
As virtual reality technology gets more advanced,’metaverse sex’ could eventually become the “norm,” replacing pornography apps and websites, just as websites pushed out magazines, according to Simon Hall, cofounder and MD of Mixed Reality Rooms. Hall says more people will
Meta’s third quarter revealed significant financial blows, particularly within its metaverse-focused Reality Labs division. Despite earning $34.1 billion in total revenue, according to their third-quarter 2023 results, a growth of 23% from the prior year, the Reality Labs sector plummeted
ByteDance, the parent company of social media juggernaut TikTok, has vehemently dismissed rumors suggesting the potential shutdown of its VR enterprise, Pico. With Pico headsets dominating 58% of the VR market in China, ByteDance’s affirmation comes at a pivotal time,
Meta’s Quest 3 virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) is hitting stores worldwide, with early users in countries like the U.S. and Canada praising the hardware as an ingenious piece of technology. Yet others haven’t been as generous in
In a bold move against Meta’s recent stance on open-source artificial intelligence (AI), Holly Elmore, an AI safety advocate, spearheaded a demonstration outside Meta’s San Francisco base. The heart of the dispute lies in the potential dangers of freely releasing
Facebook Messenger users have quickly embraced the new AI-generated stickers, but for the wrong reasons that might promote violence, creating a buzz on social media platforms. While AI has presented an opportunity for people to unleash their creative abilities, the
Major media outlets have seen a dramatic decline in referrals from Meta-owned Facebook and X, formerly Twitter, over the past year after social media platforms made changes to how they deal with news companies, Axios Media Trends reports. According to
Meta plans to offer EU customers an ad-free version of Instagram on their phones for $14 a month. For $17, the company will bundle ad-free Instagram with an ad-free version of Facebook on desktop. The plan is a means for
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