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Meta Shares its Mixed-Reality Meta Horizon OS to Third Parties
Opening up the operating system that powers its Meta Quest devices to third-party hardware makers, Meta aims to create a larger ecosystem and make it easier for developers to create apps for larger audiences.
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Meta Releases Code Generation Model Code Llama 70B, Nearing GPT-3.5 Performance
Code Llama 70B is Meta's new code generation AI model. Thanks to its 70 billion parameters, it is "the largest and best-performing model in the Code Llama family", Meta says.
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Async Ops and Scalable Keyspaces Make Threads Go Viral
Meta's Engineering team has published a post explaining how they built the infrastructure for Threads, their new online social media and networking service. The decision to launch was abrupt, with the infrastructure teams having just two days' notice. However, the teams were confident in Meta's infrastructure's maturity and past performance to effectively support the app's rapid growth.
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Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale: Yao Yue at QCon San Francisco
During the second day of QCon San Francisco 2023, Yao Yue, the founder of IOP Systems, presented on performance engineering. In her session Yue discussed the evolving performance engineering in the modern era. For decades, hardware advancements have kept many performance engineers on the sidelines, but now, in a pivotal moment, their skills are more crucial than ever.
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AI, ML, Data Engineering News Roundup: Stable Chat, Vertex AI, ChatGPT and Code Llama
The most recent update, which covers developments through September 4, 2023, highlights significant pronouncements and accomplishments in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science. Developments from Stability AI, Google, OpenAI, and Meta were among this week's significant stories.
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Meta Open Sourced AudioCraft, its Text-to-Music Generative AI
Meta has open sourced its text-to-music generative AI, AudioCraft, for researchers and practitioners to train their own models and help advance the state of the art.
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AI, ML, Data Engineering News Round up: Claude 2, Stable Doodle, CM3leon, Llama 2, Azure and xAI
The most recent update, covering developments from July 17th, 2023, showcases significant progress and announcements in the fields of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This week's focus centers on Anthropic, Stability AI, Microsoft, Meta and xAI.
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Meta AI Reveals CM3leon, an Advanced Text-to-Image Generative Model
Meta AI has introduced CM3leon, a novel multimodal model combining text and image production. This model is the first of its type, using a modified formula from text-only language models to deliver remarkable outcomes with unequaled computational efficiency.
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How Big Tech Lost Its Way - Regulation and Freedom
Technology plays an ever increasing part in our lives, yet big tech seems to be running out of control, showing behavior that is at odds with its principles. Regulation is starting to develop, but laws are rarely applied. The leaders of big tech companies should realise their job is culture. At QCon London 2023, Andy Walker gave a talk about how big tech lost its way.
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Meta Switches to MySQL Raft to Improve Reliability and Operational Simplicity
Meta is rolling out MySQL Raft in its data centers to replace its current MySQL semisynchronous databases. The new consensus engine helps operation and allows MySQL servers to take responsibility for promotions and membership.
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Meta Open-Sourced AI Tool to Animate Child and Amateur Drawings of Human Figure
Based on a joint research by Meta AI Research, Tencent America, MIT CSAIL, and Carnegie Mellon, Meta released Animated Drawings, an AI-based tool to create animations from hand drawn human-like characters.
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What Engineers and Companies Can Do to Increase Social Impact
Engineers in the tech industry have the means for social impact through their network, skills, and experience. Companies can create impact by making business practices socially-minded. Inclusive training considers the circumstances and backgrounds of individuals, with minimum entry barriers to ensure broad participation, including ethnicity, gender, neurodiversity, and socio-economic background.
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Meta AI Introduces the Segment Anything Model, a Game-Changing Model for Object Segmentation
Meta AI has introduced the Segment Anything Model (SAM), aiming to democratize image segmentation by introducing a new task, dataset, and model. The project features the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and the Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset (SA-1B), which is the most extensive segmentation dataset to date.
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Twitter Open-Sources Recommendation Algorithm
Twitter recently open-sourced several components of their system for recommending tweets for a user's Twitter timeline. The release includes the code for several of the services and jobs that run the algorithm, as well as code for training machine learning models for embedding and ranking tweets.
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The Ten Year Journey of Facebook's App for iOS
Facebook rewrote its iOS app in 2012 to take advantage of native performance and improve reliability and usability over its previous HTML5-based cross-platform implementation. In the ten years since the rewrite, the app codebase has evolved non-stop to account for the introduction of new features, to circumvent SDK limitations, and to keep up with changes in the iOS platform.