Meta reportedly continued its artificial intelligence (AI)-focused hiring spree by adding two AI researchers who had worked for Apple. The company hired Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, who will join its new Superintelligence Labs team, Bloomberg reported Thursday (July 17), citing unnamed sources. Lee has started at...
Meta faces a continuing battle with the European Commission over the company’s “consent or pay” model that allows ad-free services for a fee. The European Commission wrote Meta last week, saying that this model needs more work to bring it into compliance with antitrust provisions...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday (July 14) that the company will invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” into AI infrastructure for its superintelligence effort. Writing in a thread on Meta’s social media platform Threads, Zuckerberg noted that Meta has also been investing in talent for its superintelligence team. “We...
Meta has reportedly acquired voice technology/artificial intelligence (AI) startup PlayAI. The “entire PlayAI team” is due to join Meta this week, Bloomberg News reported late Friday (July 11), citing an internal memo. The company confirmed the acquisition but declined to comment further, the report added....
Meta has reportedly convinced three of OpenAI’s researchers to jump ship. Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, all stationed with OpenAI’s Zurich office, have been hired by the social media giant for its artificial intelligence (AI) efforts, the Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday...
Meta has reportedly poached some top engineers from tech firms for its artificial general intelligence (AGI) team. One engineer who confirmed he is moving to Meta is Jack Rae, a principal researcher at Google DeepMind, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (June 11). Alexandr Wang, co-founder and CEO...
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly taking a hands-on approach to expanding the company’s AGI team. This effort is born out of Zuckerberg’s frustration with the tech giant’s limitations in artificial intelligence (AI), Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (June 10), citing sources familiar with the matter. According...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday (April 30) that the social media giant will increase its spending for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers this year as it embeds the technology more deeply throughout its family of apps. “The major theme right now, of course, is...
Meta’s head of artificial intelligence research is moving on. Joelle Pineau, who has been with the tech giant since 2017, announced her resignation on Facebook Tuesday (April 1). “Today, as the world undergoes significant change, as the race for AI accelerates, and as Meta prepares...