Meta reclassifies $3.26 billion in assets for sale as it seeks external partners to co finance AI data centers, reflecting a shift in Silicon Valley AI investment strategy.

Meta to offload $2 billion in data centre assets to fund AI infrastructure costs

The move underscores Meta’s accelerating investment in artificial intelligence and AI talent poaching as it seeks to close the gap with rivals OpenAI and Google in the race to build artificial general intelligence (AGI). 

Meta appoints ChatGPT co-creator Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of Superintelligence Lab

The acquisition is expected to significantly strengthen Meta’s capabilities in natural speech generation and real-time voice interaction across its product suite.

Meta acquires voice AI startup to bolster conversational tech

The scale of Meta’s spending, bolstered by promises of unlimited GPU access and infrastructure, marks a significant shift in how Big Tech is willing to invest in human capital to gain an edge.

Meta’s $100 million AI talent blitz brings new high in tech hiring war

Rouming Pang, a US-based artificial intelligence expert, has received a salary deal of $200 million from Meta Platforms. The software wizard has quit tech giant Apple to join the Mark Zuckerberg-led company. 

Meet Ruoming Pang, who got a Rs 1713 crore salary deal; where did he study?

With its latest hires, Meta is signalling its intention to go all-in on superintelligent AI and challenge rivals head-on in what is shaping up to be Silicon Valley’s most intense innovation race.

Meta poaches top OpenAI researchers for superintelligence push

World: “Meta AI is built to get to know you, so its answers are more helpful,” said the company. “It’s easy to talk to, so it’s more seamless and natural to interact with,” Meta added.

Meta’s answer to ChatGPT is here, and it’s a ‘social’ AI app: What are its key features?

Meta announced on Monday (Nov 6) that it would allow the US national security agencies and defence contractors to use its artificial intelligence (AI) model, Llama.

Meta allows use of Llama AI to US national security agencies and defence contractors

WhatsApp is constantly upgrading to make daily conversation more effective and fun, and has launched an upgrade integrating Meta AI featuring voice assistance. This new feature will enable the user to interact with Meta AI through voice commands, which will make conversation more efficient.

WhatsApp latest update involves Meta AI voice chat mode with customisable voices

Meta AI became the saviour of a 22-year-old woman who attempted suicide in Uttar Pradesh. The video was shared on the social media platform, appreciating Meta’s quick response, which enabled the police to act quickly at the right time and save her.

Meta AI detects ‘distress’ video, sends suicide alert to UP Police, helps saves woman’s life

WION brings you this daily round up of global stories from the world of Technology: - Tencent closes WeChat Pay Malaysia wallet - Meta in talks to use voices of Judi Dench, Awkwafina for AI - App helping Uganda's visually impaired students learn

Tencent closes WeChat Pay Malaysia wallet

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is eyeing celebrities in Hollywood for voices to be used in its artificial intelligence pursuits.

Meta eyes celebrity voices for AI, offer multi-million dollar deals

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced on Wednesday that it has uncovered and disrupted a disinformation campaign on its platforms that involved "likely AI-generated" content.

Meta discovers AI-generated deceptive content on Facebook and Instagram

Meta executives have revealed that their AI virtual assistant, dubbed Meta AI, was trained on public posts made by its users on Facebook and Instagram. Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg, however, clarified that they didn’t scrape through the private Facebook messenger and Instagram chats that are shared only with family and friends so as to respect consumers’ privacy.

Meta admits its new AI chatbot is trained on posts by users on Facebook and Instagram

Chatbot race is taking a faster speed as companies introduce their versions of AI-powered bots and coming September, Meta will launch its own AI-powered chatbot in quest to retain and grow the user base.

Meta's AI plans: Company to engage with AI-powered chatbots, quest to regain users

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