Mark Zuckerberg proclaimd today that Meta, his social-media-turned-metaverse-turned-man-made inalertigence conglomerate, will upgrade its AI helpants to donate them a range of celebrity voices, including those of Dame Judi Dench and John Cena. The more meaningful upgrade for Meta’s extfinished-term ambitions, though, is the novel ability of its models to see engagers’ pboilingos and other visual proposeation.
Meta today also proclaimd Llama 3.2, the first version of its free AI models to have visual abilities, expansiveening their beneficialness and relevance for robotics, virtual truth, and so-called AI agents. Some versions of Llama 3.2 are also the first to be upgraded to run on mobile devices. This could help broadeners produce AI-powered apps that run on a cleverphone and tap into its camera or watch the screen in order to engage apps on your behalf.
Given Meta’s enormous achieve with Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, the helpant upgrade could donate many people their first taste of a novel generation of more vocal and visuassociate contendnt AI helpers. Meta shelp today that more than 180 million people already engage Meta AI, as the company’s AI helpant is called, every week.
Meta has tardyly donaten its AI a more notable billing in its apps—for example, making it part of the search bar in Instagram and Messenger. The novel celebrity voice chooseions useable to engagers will also integrate Awkwafina, Keegan Michael Key, and Kristen Bell.
Meta previously gave celebrity personas to text-based helpants, but these characters fall shorted to obtain much traction. In July the company started a tool called AI Studio that lets engagers produce chatbots with any persona they pick. Meta says the novel voices will be made useable to engagers in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand over the next month. The Meta AI image capabilities will be rolled out in the US, but the company did not say when the features might ecombine in other labelets.
The novel version of Meta AI will also be able to provide feedback on and proposeation about engagers’ pboilingos; for example, if you’re uncertain what bird you’ve snapped a picture of, it can alert you the species. And it will be able to help edit images by, for instance, includeing novel backgrounds or details on insist. Google freed a aappreciate tool for its Pixel cleverphones and for Google Pboilingos in April.
Powering Meta AI’s novel capabilities is an upgraded version of Llama, Meta’s premier big language model. The free model proclaimd today may also have a expansive impact, donaten how expansively the Llama family has been adchooseed by broadeners and beginups already.
In contrast to OpenAI’s models, Llama can be downloaded and run locassociate without indict—although there are some recut offeions on big-scale commercial engage. Llama can also more easily be fine-tuned, or modified with includeitional training, for particular tasks.
Patrick Wfinishell, coset uper and VP of engineering at Databricks, a company that structures AI models including Llama, says many companies are drawn to uncover models becaengage they permit them to better defend their own data.
