Big Tech’s social and commerce platforms already dominate the web. Now, they want to help run Main Street. Meta made that ambition explicit Monday (Sept. 28), announcing its new Meta Enterprise Platform and recruiting MongoDB CEO Chirantan “CJ” Desai to lead the initiative. A day...
Meta is preparing to launch a small, handheld device that fits on a keychain and lets users talk to the company’s personal artificial intelligence agent, Muse, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday (Sept. 23) during his keynote at the Meta Connect event. Meta has dubbed the...
Meta unveiled its Meta One subscription program, according to a Tuesday (Sept. 15) announcement, as the tech giant moves to monetize its artificial intelligence efforts. The new service offers plans for individuals, creators and businesses using the company’s Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Meta AI platforms,...
Meta introduced a personal artificial intelligence agent called Muse that is “built for everyone,” the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 8) blog post. Muse is designed to be simple to use. Users can communicate with the personal AI agent in the Muse app or...
A day after blasting OpenAI and Anthropic for hoarding information, the drama surrounding Meta’s Q2 earnings call centered around how he would follow up. Listeners didn’t have to wait long for the answer. “It’s extremely unlikely, if you look out five years from now, that...
Meta is trying every angle it has to make its artificial intelligence (AI) bet pay off. It has spent more than $100 billion building the infrastructure. It has restructured its research division around what CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls “personal superintelligence.” It has pushed AI into...
Meta has shuttered an artificial intelligence image creation feature after just three days, following public backlash. The tech giant last Tuesday (July 7) introduced a tool that let users generate images using public Instagram accounts. By Friday (July 10), the feature was pulled, after Meta...
Meta has begun rolling out an image generation model available in Meta AI. Muse Image is the first such model developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company said in a Tuesday (July 7) press release. The model understands complex prompts and blends multiple photos into creations that can...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees Thursday (July 2) that artificial intelligence (AI) agents have not progressed as quickly as he expected, a rare admission from the executive who bet his company’s structure, and as much as $145 billion in infrastructure spending this year, on...