Fast Facts
- Meta's Mark Zuckerberg took to social media today with some news about its AI developments
- The company is launching Meta AI today
- Zuckerberg promises more big innovations coming down the pipeline
From Meta's (META) Mark Zuckerberg to Tesla's Elon Musk, tech CEOs tend to have one thing in common: they talk big.
Musk has done so nearly nonstop about a variety of topics from the Cybertruck to the future of self-driving, while Zuckerberg's last big stance was to say his own company's Meta Quest headset was better than the Apple Vision Pro.
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Now Zuck is back with a hot new take: Meta is releasing its own AI system, called Meta AI, which uses Meta's own open-source model called Llama 3.
"The bottom line is that we believe Meta AI is now the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use," Zuckerberg said.
The Meta CEO went on to extoll the benefits of the new feature, which he says integrates real-time knowledge from Google and Bing "right into the answers."
Facebook $META CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced the release of its newest version of Meta AI
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"We believe Meta AI is now the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use" pic.twitter.com/4ptwYZXPFM
As reported previously, Meta AI will be built into all the company's apps, which include Facebook, Instagram, and What's App., and will be accessible in all search boxes on those platforms.
Zuckerberg says you can also use the new AI features on the web on a new website, Meta.ai.
"Meta AI now creates animations, and it creates high quality images so fast that is actually generates and updates the images for you in real time as you're typing," he continued. "It's pretty wild."
Zuckerberg says that Meta is "investing massively" to build the leading AI, and that "open sourcing our models responsibly is a part of our approach," taking a jab at OpenAI, which is notoriously known for scraping all sorts of content to train its AI that it does not have permission to use.
Meta is open-sourcing the first of its Llama 3 models at 80 billion and 70 billion parameters, which Zuckerberg promises have "the best in class performance for their scale".
The Meta CEO also teases what he calls "a larger dense model we're still training with more than 400 billion parameters", saying he expects it to be "industry leading on a number of benchmarks" once it comes out.
One new feature that Zuckerberg didn't mention comes along with the introduction of Meta AI is AI-generated comments on posts, which was spotted on April 18 by Techradar, generating near-immediate criticism.
