If you missed it, Mark Zuckerberg dropped a few updates on AI to Instagram. 

I must say, Meta has pleasantly surprised me in 2023. After years of feeling like an overbearing data collector leveraging questionable tactics with a cool but niche VR subsidiary, Meta’s pivot toward AI suddenly aligned perfectly with its strengths.

Meta’s LLaMA-2 ranks among the top LLMs and is accessible for custom deployment beyond competitors’ walled gardens. Intriguing research into video generation AI like Emu, text-to-speech tools, and its impressive image generator rival competitors. And Meta’s social data riches provide unmatched real-world training data to drive strikingly conversational bots — I interviewed its sports expert Bru modeled after Tom Brady.

Mark Zuckerberg’s latest open-access AI comments make promises that could cement Meta as a uniquely collaborative player compared to increasingly closed systems like OpenAI and Anthropic’s Claude. Combined with its research in personal assistants and the surprisingly great object-detecting Ray-Ban glasses rollout, Meta seems poised to lay an AI foundation leading the next computing era.

A new age of ambient computing is hatching with Meta an exciting contender. Its next chapter could bring encouraging surprises benefiting both consumers and company, even if warranted user data concerns remain.

Check out his post on Instagram.

Mark Zuckerberg on Instagram: “Some updates on our AI efforts. Our long term vision is to build general intelligence, open source it responsibly, and make it widely available so everyone can benefit. We’re bringing our two major AI research efforts (FAIR and GenAI) closer together to support this. We’re currently training our next-gen model Llama 3, and we’re building massive compute infrastructure to support our future roadmap, including 350k H100s by the end of this year — and overall almost 600k H100s equivalents of compute if you include other GPUs. Also really excited about our progress building new AI-centric computing devices like Ray Ban Meta smart glasses. Lots more to come soon.”

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