Meta is creating a brand new top-level product group centered on generative synthetic intelligence (AI), Chief Government Mark Zuckerberg mentioned on Monday, because the AI race amongst Huge Tech corporations heats up.
AI has emerged as a shiny spot for investments within the tech trade, which has been combating slowing progress, and has minimize hundreds of jobs in addition to dialed down on experimental bets to beat the downturn.
“We’re beginning by pulling collectively a whole lot of the groups engaged on generative AI throughout the corporate into one group centered on constructing pleasant experiences round this expertise,” Zuckerberg mentioned in an Instagram put up.
“Over the long term, we’ll deal with growing AI personas that may assist folks in quite a lot of methods,” Zuckerberg mentioned, however for now “we’re exploring experiences with textual content (chat in WhatsApp and Messenger), with pictures (inventive Instagram filters and advert codecs), and with video and multi-modal experiences.”
The brand new product workforce will report back to Chris Cox, Meta’s chief product officer, an organization spokesperson confirmed. This can allow Meta to extra quickly implement the AI analysis workforce’s findings in Meta’s merchandise, the spokesperson mentioned.
The general public battle to dominate the AI expertise area kicked off late final 12 months with the launch of Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has since prompted tech heavyweights from Alphabet to China’s Baidu to announce their very own choices.
Final week, Fb-parent Meta mentioned it was releasing a brand new massive language mannequin LLaMA, the core software program of a brand new AI system, which might be accessible underneath non-commercial license to researchers and entities affiliated with authorities, civil society and academia.
Shares of Meta closed down 0.5 % on Monday.
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