All the big tech cos eventually converge on the same thing.

The next thing they're all thinking about is AI ear buds.

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Earphones with cameras? huh. ok. Otherwise, makes sense. Kalley Huang Sylvia Varnham O’Regan $meta

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Scoop w/ Kalley Huang: Meta is exploring developing AI-powered earphones with cameras: theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

Meta is exploring developing AI-powered earphones with cameras.

Scoop with Sylvia Varnham O’Regan:

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Scoop: Thomas Reardon, a vice president of research on Meta's AR team, is leaving the company in May. He led Reality Labs' work on electromyography, a key technology for providing input in AR/VR devices.

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Jam-packed AI Agenda for y'all this morning:

- What's the latest with AI startup valuations (hint: a correction could be coming)
- Early glimpses of OpenAI's search engine efforts
- And a scoop from Kalley Huang highlighting Meta's brain drain

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Meta is making unconventional moves to hire and keep AI researchers, offering jobs to candidates without interviewing them and relaxing a practice of not increasing pay for employees threatening to leave. And CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting involved.

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general purpose AI chatbots are a PR minefield.

damned if the chatbot answers a question, damned if it refuses.

with llama 3, meta hopes to get around that:

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Scoop: Meta is trying to make its forthcoming large language model, Llama 3, more open to difficult questions after leaders at the company deemed some of Llama 2's responses too 'safe'.
W/ Kalley Huang :

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Meta is trying to make Llama 3 engage with difficult questions after senior leaders and researchers found some responses by Llama 2 too 'safe.'

More details on Llama 3 in a scoop from Sylvia Varnham O’Regan and me:
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Scoop with Kalley Huang: Meta is is reducing payments to news organizations that fact-check potential misinformation on WhatsApp, including around elections. theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

Meta is reducing payments to news organizations that fact check potential misinformation on WhatsApp, ahead of major elections this year.

Scoop with Sylvia Varnham O’Regan:
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Meta execs have said Meta is ceasing development of 'augments,' icons meant to pop up in the field of vision of someone wearing AR glasses

crazy that the company could have gone from news feed status updates to this!

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Instagram head Adam Mosseri has called user well-being a 'No. 1 priority' and youth safety 'critically important. But those public positions have been at odds with his internal decisions and priorities.

With Sylvia Varnham O’Regan:

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In *other* AI news: Meta has split up its Responsible AI team and will move most of its members over to Generative AI, as part of a broader AI reshuffle announced internally this week.
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Photos and highlights from The Information’s #WTFSummit :

- Jessica Lessin speaking on why she started The Information 10 years ago

- seeing my talented colleagues in-action: Stephanie Palazzolo, Kate Clark, Erin Woo, natasha mascarenhas, Kalley Huang

New: Meta’s AI teams are struggling with a stream of departures, internal tensions over resources and volatility caused by ongoing restructuring.

And all this is playing out as Meta makes a big push into generative AI.

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killer story from Kalley Huang and Sylvia Varnham O’Regan on the drama inside Meta's AI team: theinformation.com/articles/insid…

Meta is all in on AI. Over the past six months, it has released two large language models, Llama and Llama 2, and a code-generating model, Code Llama.

But behind the scenes, its AI teams have been roiled by drama and departures.

With Sylvia Varnham O’Regan:

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New org chart from @sylviavarnham & Kalley Huang: Meta has built a generative AI team of 550 people in just six months, including people both research and product. We identify key team members. theinformation.com/articles/the-k…