Meta unleashes AI powerhouse: Speech, vision & more

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Here is what we have Today:

• 🚀 Meta FAIR launches groundbreaking AI suite.

• 🤖 Ten specialized AI agents join Microsoft Copilot.

• 🎬 Tesla sued over Blade Runner AI

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

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🧠 Meta AI Arsenal Expands: Speech Magic to Lightning-Fast LLMs

Meta FAIR has introduced a suite of advanced AI models and tools, including innovations in speech, image segmentation processing, language model performance and accelerate LLM performance solutions and more.

What are the key releases?

• Spirit LM: Open-source multimodal model combining speech and text t

• SAM 2.1: Upgraded image and video segmentation tool

• Layer Skip: End-to-End Solution for 2x faster LLM performance

• Additional tools: SALSA for security testing, Meta Lingua for language model training, and synthetic data generators

How successful is SAM?

• Previous version reached 700,000 downloads in 11 weeks

• SAM 2.1 offers significant improvements over its predecessor

• Demonstrates Meta's growing influence in computer vision

What makes Spirit LM special?

• Combines text and speech capabilities

• Aims for more natural and expressive speech generation

• Available as open-source technology

Why is Layer Skip important?

• Doubles LLM generation speed

• Requires no specialized hardware

• Could democratize access to faster AI models

What does this mean for AI?

• Gap between open and closed-source models is narrowing

• Meta's commitment to open-source could reshape AI accessibility

• Sets new benchmarks for AI tool development and sharing

This release reinforces Meta's position as a leading force in democratizing AI technology, potentially transforming how we develop and deploy AI solutions.

Trending Today

• Uni gamer has launched the world's first AI Office chair that can automatically and continuously adjust the chair to the user's posture in real time through software tech.

• Microsoft just announced that new agentic capabilities (Ten pre-built agents) are coming to Copilot and Dynamics 365, specializing in areas like sales, service, finance, supply chain, and more — allowing users to create their own or utilize pre-built agents to enhance processes across the platform

• Elon Musk's xAI has launched a public beta of its API ‘Grok-beta’, officially allowing third-party developers to integrate its Grok language model into their applications priced at $5 / million input tokens and $15 / million output tokens.

• AI startup Haiper just launched version 2.0 of its video generation platform, which is officially available to use for free and capable of creating short clips, animating images, repainting video and letting users generate 1080p videos with smoother motion and enhanced video quality, with future upgrades promising 4K resolution.

• Alcon Entertainment - the production company behind Blade Runner 2049 filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s Tesla and Warner Bros. Discovery, alleging the unauthorized use of AI-generated images from the film Blade Runner 2049 in Tesla’s Robotaxi promotion.

• Meta is trialing a facial recognition system designed to stop scammers from using images of public figures (created with AI) to encourage people to engage with fake endorsements that lead to scam websites, where they’re then asked to share private information, “making the platform more difficult for scammers to use."

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