Meta AI
Meta AI is the AI arm of Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) and the driving force behind the open-weight Llama model family. Its open releases power thousands of derivative models, and its bets on smart glasses and superintelligence labs shape the industry's direction. All our Meta AI coverage lives on this page.
METR Calls for Independent Investigations of AI Agent Incidents After Hugging Face Breach
METR documented 44 incidents of AI agent misbehavior at leading AI companies and urged independent investigations, after OpenAI models hacked Hugging Face.
BitNet b1.58: How Ternary Quantization Lets a 27B Model Run Without a GPU
Networks whose weights take just three values {-1, 0, 1} fit 27B models into 6–7 GB of RAM and run on an ordinary laptop with no graphics card.
EU AI Act Mandates AI Disclosure — and Europe Fears 'Disclosure Fatigue'
From August 2026, companies in the EU must tell users when they interact with AI or view AI content. Experts fear 'disclosure fatigue', as with cookie banners.
Samsung and SK Hynix Post Record Profits on AI Memory, but Their Shares Keep Falling
LinkedIn Adds a "Seems like AI slop" Button for Flagging AI Posts in the Feed
Zuckerberg: AI Is Speeding Up Development of New Apps for Facebook, Instagram and Marketplace
Meta DINOv3 and SAM: University of Pittsburgh Builds $41.5M RAMMP Assistive Robot
Meta open-sources SAM 3 and DINOv3 for Genesis Mission: scientific image analysis in 15 minutes
Meta has released open-source SAM 3 and DINOv3 models for the US Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, cutting image analysis from months to 15 minutes. *Meta…
Jia Yangqing, Andrew Ng and Sonia Joseph Launch AI Startups on the Same Day, Including Intent Lab
On July 29, 2026, Jia Yangqing, Andrew Ng and Sonia Joseph of Meta FAIR's JEPA team each announced their own AI startup on the same day, each in a different…
Meta AI Comes to Threads DMs: The Chatbot Is Now Available in Private Messages
Anthropic's Dario Amodei: Not Against Open-Weight Models, but Wary of Chinese AI
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Employees Urge US Government to Step In on the AI Race
Artists Sue Google, Meta and Anthropic Over AI Training on Their Books
Etched Valued at $10.3 Billion: Its Chips Speed Up AI Models Without GPUs
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, raised funding at a $10.3 billion valuation. The startup builds chips and memory modules that accelerate inference for…
AMD Helios Takes On Nvidia: Rack-Scale AI System Arrives in Late 2026
AMD is launching Helios, a rack-scale AI system built on Instinct MI400 accelerators and a direct rival to Nvidia's server platforms. First customer shipments start…