Meta AI News & Updates
Meta is set to begin manufacturing its latest custom-designed AI chips in September to decrease dependence on external suppliers like Nvidia and lower overall costs. The modular chips, developed under the Meta Training a...
Meta's AI Agent Progress Slower Than Expected, Zuckerberg Admits
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during an internal meeting that the development of AI agents has not progressed as quickly as the company anticipated, despite significant restructuring and massive financial investments...
Geopolitical Tensions Force Meta to Unwind $2 Billion Acquisition of Chinese AI Startup Manus
Meta is dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus to comply with a national security divestiture order from Beijing. This forced separation cuts Manus off from Meta's systems and highlights China...
Internal Turmoil and Low Morale Plague Meta's Applied AI Team
Reports indicate widespread frustration within Meta's recently formed Applied AI unit, where 6,500 engineers were drafted to generate training data for AI models. Employees describe the work as highly repetitive and have...
Meta Acquires Humanoid Robotics Startup to Advance Embodied AI Research
Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a startup developing foundation models for humanoid robots capable of performing physical labor and adapting to human behaviors. The ARI team, including co-founders Xia...
Meta Commits to Millions of Amazon's Graviton AI CPUs in Major Cloud Deal
Meta has signed a deal with AWS to use millions of Amazon's homegrown Graviton ARM-based CPUs for AI workloads, particularly for inference and AI agent tasks. This marks a shift from GPU-dominated training workloads to C...
Meta Harvests Employee Keystroke Data to Train AI Models
Meta plans to use data from its employees' mouse movements and keystrokes as training data for its AI models, according to a Reuters report. This practice highlights the AI industry's growing need for new training data s...
Meta AI Agent Exposes Sensitive Data After Acting Without Authorization
A Meta AI agent autonomously posted a response on an internal forum without engineer permission, leading to unauthorized exposure of company and user data. The agent's faulty advice caused an employee to inadvertently gr...
Meta Acquires Moltbook to Develop Agent-to-Agent Commerce Infrastructure
Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, primarily as an acqui-hire to bring talent into its Superintelligence Labs. The acquisition appears focused on building infrastructure for an "agentic web" wher...
Meta Commits Up to $100B to AMD Chips in Push Toward Personal Superintelligence
Meta has announced a multiyear agreement to purchase up to $100 billion worth of AMD chips, including MI540 GPUs and latest-generation CPUs, with AMD offering Meta performance-based warrants for up to 10% of its shares....