Category : Technology

Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone

The most popular language models out there may be accessed via API, but open models — as far as that term can be taken seriously — are gaining ground. Mistral, a French AI startup that raised a huge seed round in June, has just taken the wraps o...

Meta Quest 3 convinced me to love VR by downplaying the metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the Meta Quest 3 VR headset on stage at Meta’s Connect event in California today, but I was lucky enough to get a chance to try it out last week in San Francisco. The Meta Quest 3 is similar to its two predecessors, and...

Ray-Ban’s new Meta smart glasses will be able to translate text

Meta just took the wraps off its latest smart glasses at today’s Connect event in Menlo Park. We were able to spend a bit of time with the new wearables and were impressed by what they can do — specifically livestreaming, the biggest missing fea...

Meta debuts AI Studio to let developers build custom chatbots

Today at its annual Connect developer conference, Meta launched AI Studio, a platform that’ll let businesses build AI chatbots for the company’s various messaging services, including Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. Starting with Messenger, AI...

Introducing the New Ray-Ban | Meta Smart Glasses

Today at Meta Connect, in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, we announced our next-generation Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses collection. We redesigned these from the ground up, improving all the core features of the first generation while adding ne...

Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses livestream to Instagram and Facebook

The original Ray-Ban Stories didn’t catch on quite like Meta had hoped. According to a recent report, the company managed to sell a bit over one-third of what the internal 300,000 unit goal it set for the first seven months the device was on sal...

Qualcomm launches its next-gen chips for XR and AR platforms

Right in time for the launch of Meta’s Quest 3 VR goggles, Qualcomm today announced its newest chips for XR and AR platforms: the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 for VR and mixed reality devices and the AR1 Gen 1, specifically designed for smart glasses. I...

Meta Connect 2023: Everything announced so far

Meta’s annual Connect conference started today, and this means lots of new hardware and perhaps a Metaverse sighting. Are you ready for an update on Meta Quest 3? Don’t have time to tune in live? That’s okay — stick with us because we are summin...

Roblox is launching on Meta Quest VR headsets today

Roblox is launching on Meta Quest VR headsets today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at the company’s Connect event. The announcement comes as Roblox, a major player in the metaverse space, was rumored to become available on Meta Quest VR hea...

Meta Quest is getting a business platform next month

Meta’s Quest headsets have long been reliably consumer focused – at least until last year’s Quest Pro launch. Meta, like Magic Leap and Microsoft before it, has seen the writing on the wall. The real money is in enterprise. At today’s Connect co...

Privacy Matters: Meta’s Generative AI Features

Today, we’re launching new generative AI features, and like other Meta products, we took steps to protect your privacy and offer greater transparency as we built these exciting new features. We developed privacy mitigations through our privacy...

Introducing Social Profiles for Meta’s AIs

Today during Connect, we introduced new AI experiences across our family of apps and devices, including testing 28 AIs with unique interests and personalities for you to interact with and dive deeper into your interests. While we’re rolling out...

Building Generative AI Features Responsibly

Meta has been a pioneer in AI for more than a decade. We’ve released more than 1,000 AI models, libraries, and data sets for researchers – including the latest version of our large language model, Llama 2, available in partnership with Microsof...

Introducing New AI Experiences Across Our Family of Apps and Devices

AI is enabling new forms of connection and expression, thanks to the power of generative technologies. And today at Connect, we introduced you to new AI experiences and features that can enhance your connections with others – and give you the t...

Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Meta Quest 3 in December

The next-generation of Meta Quest hardware is here, and Meta announced a bunch of software news alongside the Quest 3 VR headset hardware reveal at its Connect conference. One such announcement was the debut of Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming serv...