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Mark Zuckerberg's surprising move inside Meta AI labs to take on rivals OpenAI and Google. Here's what the tech billionaire is doingTech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has made a surprising move inside the Meta AI labs to take on OpenAI and Google. He is now sitting next to...
ETtech Explainer: How Meta's Muse Spark fares against Anthropic's Opus, OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini modelsMuse Spark is the first model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs. It is a natively multimodal, reasoning-focussed AI model, designed to p...
China probes Meta’s $2 billion AI deal amid reports that its highest-paid employee Alexandr Wang finds Zuckerberg’s micromanagement ‘suffocating’Zuckerberg vs. Wang amid China probes Meta: China is investigating Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus. This probe examines potential vi...
Meta appoints insider Vishal Shah to key AI roleMeta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has appointed Vishal Shah to lead product management for AI products. This move highlights Big Tech's st...
Meta's AI leaders discuss using Google, OpenAI models in apps: ReportLeaders at Meta's new AI organisation, Meta Superintelligence Labs, have explored integrating Google's Gemini model to deliver conversation...
Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveFormsMeta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a startup using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and mimic emotion in audio. Founded by for...
Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to have their own ‘personal superintelligence’Zuckerberg laid out new plans to deliver personal superintelligence powered by AI to the general public. He said Meta's approach was distin...
Zuckerberg announces Meta ‘superintelligence’ effort, more hiresZuckerberg wrote Monday to employees that Meta’s AI efforts will fall under a new group called Meta Superintelligence Labs, which will be l...
Meta continues acquisition spree, grabs voice AI startup PlayAIMeta has acquired voice AI startup Play AI, further deepening its push into artificial intelligence. The move comes amid a wave of strategi...
Sutskever to lead Safe Superintelligence after Meta poaches CEO Gross in AI talent warThe development comes as tech giants such as Meta Platforms aggressively chase high-profile acquisitions and offer multi-million-dollar pay...
Zuckerberg's $100 million lure: Why top Chinese and Indian AI minds are joining his Superintelligence ProjectMeta has assembled a "Superintelligence" AI team, poaching top researchers from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Led by Nat Friedman and Alex...
Shadowfax files IPO papers; UPI cools in JuneLogistics firm Shadowfax has become the latest new-age company to confidentially file for its IPO. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
Meta has set up AI superintelligence team with hires from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic: ReportsOpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a recent podcast that Meta was recruiting AI researchers from his company, offering signing bonuses as high a...
The Bot Company, Kyle Vogt’s robotics startup, valued at $2 billionThe Bot Company, valued at $2 billion, has raised $150 million in funding. The company, focused on developing non-humanoid robots to assist...
AI startup Basis raises $34 million for accounting automation 'agent'New York-based Basis is part of a category of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their ow...
AI startup EvolutionaryScale raises $142 million to advance tech in biologyCalling it a "ChatGPT moment for biology," Lux Capital cofounder and managing partner Josh Wolfe told the company has developed the first l...
US-based voice AI startup ElevenLabs gains unicorn status after latest fundraisingElevenLabs on Monday said it raised $80 million in Series B funding from investors led by venture capitalist Andreessen Horowitz along with...
Sam Altman, Peak XV fund AI startup founded by two Indian-origin teensInduced is an AI-backed browser (RPA) robotic process automation platform that allows automation of workflows that require real-time reason...
Microsoft-owned GitHub appoints new CEO in Cloud-AI eraThomas Dohmke, currently chief product officer, will replace Nat Friedman from November 15, who will move into the role of chairman emeritu...
Oracle strikes alliance with Xamarin to take on Amazon, IBM and MicrosoftAs part of the deal, Xamarin is launching a new cloud tool that competes with Amazon Web Services, IBM's Bluemix and Microsoft Azure.