⚡️ Meta is Back

Good Morning. Meta is launching a host of new AI-powered bots, features, and products to be released across its messaging apps, the Meta Quest 3, and the future Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Let’s dig in.

Today's Highlights:

• Cloudflare ramps up AI efforts

• ChatGPT upgraded with internet access

• Workday unveils generative AI for HR

DEEP DIVE

Meta Unveils a 'Universe of AI'

In the annual Meta Connect conference, Zuckerberg announced large-scale AI enhancements across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. In a bid to integrate state-of-the-art AI into apps that billions of people use, the new AI updates aim to revolutionize user experience with targeted AI offerings.

Meet MetaAI

Shattering the traditional voice-only engagement, Meta’s AI Assistant interaction spans voice, text, and physical gestures. Users can identify real-world objects, get information about specific locations or artworks, and document their moments through photos and videos.

Star-studded AI Chatbots

Modeing icons like Snoop Dogg and Naomi Osaka, Meta introduces 28 AI personality chatbots as conversation aides on WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. However, the knowledge base of these chatbots, built on the Llama 2 LLM, is largely time-bound, limiting them to pre-2023 information.

AI Studio for Businesses & Creators

Making AI-driven customer interaction a reality, Meta launches AI Studio for businesses to design AI chatbots across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger services. The company also plans to release a sandbox tool—empowering users to experiment with creating their AI.

Unique AI Stickers & Photo Restyling

Meta is introducing co-creation and AI editing tools for images on Instagram and plans to roll out similar features in other apps. Also, using Llama 2 and Emu image generation models, text prompts can be transformed into stickers.

Additionally, Instagram will roll out two unique features: Restyle and Backdrop, empowering users to transform images or collaborate in producing AI-generated images.

Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

Slated for an October 17th launch, the new Ray-Ban Smart Glasses incorporate Meta AI. Users can engage with the AI to spark creativity and control the glasses—just by using their voice.

Zuckerberg, however, noted these are early-stage launches with potential pitfalls, with privacy and accuracy being top concerns. However, Meta assures that it has undertaken measures to safeguard its AI technologies, conducted red-teaming, and trained its AI to prevent unsuitable or incorrect responses.

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PUNCHLINES

Beyond Borders: Cloudflare and Microsoft join forces to deploy AI models in locations most suitable for their needs.

Vive Le AI: French billionaire Xavier Niel is pledging up to $210 million to spearhead AI initiatives across Europe.

Supercharged HR: Enterprise management platform vendor Workday unveils new HR-focused generative AI features.

From Mars with Love: Researchers train AI system to predict whether Martian rocks contain biosignatures in hopes of detecting extraterrestrial life.

Steady Slope: Sam Altman-backed startup Slope raises 30M for an AI-powered B2B payments platform.

TLDR

OpenAI equips ChatGPT with internet access: OpenAI has supercharged ChatGPT with unrestricted internet access courtesy of a Microsoft Bing integration, allowing the chatbot to offer up-to-date and credible information sourced from the web. Available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users, the internet-enabled chatbot can also scan and analyze images and speak to users.

Cloudflare ramps up AI efforts with innovative solutions: Cloudflare announces AI platform updates aimed at speedy global deployment of AI models. The updates include Workers AI for serverless AI task deployment, AI Gateway for better application management, and Vectorize, a new database supporting vectorized data.

OpenAI and Jony Ive to potentially collaborate on an AI hardware project: Jony Ive, former Apple product designer, is in talks with OpenAI to discuss a potential AI hardware project. Details remain undisclosed, but both OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and billionaire Masayoshi Son of SoftBank are involved in these early-stage discussions.

Writers' strike ends after agreement: Hollywood's Writers' Guild strike ends after a five-month run, reaching an agreement addressing pay, health contributions, and AI use. The deal clears AI-generated material from replacing or altering writers' work and mandates company disclosure of AI-sourced materials.

TRENDING TOOLS

🤖 Diddo AI: Create customized chatbots for unique business requirements

🔩 Buildship: Leverage AI to craft backend code, APIs, and schedule tasks effortlessly

📖 Alphadoc: Produce effective developer onboarding

🚀 Flightplan: Unveiling automated marketing plans for non-specialists

🕹️ CommandBar Copilot: Interactive AI tutor for users to learn and finish tasks efficiently

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