Kalley Huang

While some developers are racing towards superintelligent AI technology, others are focused on building cheaper, more practical models. Over the past six months, several big tech companies including Google and Microsoft have released small language models, in a bid to stake their ground in a burgeoning area of artificial intelligence research.

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has canceled the blank check he once reserved for his augmented reality and virtual reality teams.

If you haven’t caught our analysis of OpenAI’s finances in a story we published this morning, it’s worth a read. My colleagues Amir and Aaron have gone deep on how much the ChatGPT creator is spending on computing capacity and other expenses, based on previously undisclosed internal data. Paired with estimates of revenue, they’ve put a number on how much money the company is losing.

XAI has considered an acquisition of chatbot maker Character as Elon Musk’s AI startup hunts for talent and more ways to test its AI models.

The big fish of artificial intelligence are again circling a minnow.

Character AI co-founders Daniel De Freitas and Noam Shazeer. Photos by Winni Wintermeyer for The Washington Post via Getty.

Over the past several months, Character.AI seemed to talk to every big tech company about some sort of partnership or acquisition. In the end, its cofounders, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some researchers landed at Google.But Character had another previously unmentioned suitor: ...

To compete with OpenAI and other artificial intelligence developers, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg needs cloud providers like Amazon Web Services to convince businesses to use Meta’s AI model Llama.So far, that has been a mixed bag, as my colleagues reported on Wednesday. And we just ...

Meta Platforms is shutting Spark, its platform for businesses and creators to build augmented reality effects for Meta’s apps, the company said in a blog post Tuesday.Spark, which was launched in 2017, will be shut on January 14, 2025. Afterward, AR effects created and owned by third parties will not be available on Meta’s apps. However, Meta’s AR effects will remain available.“This

Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg at a conference on computer graphics earlier this year. Photo by AP/David Zalubowski.