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Mark Zuckerberg announced today that Meta, his social-media-turned-metaverse-turned-artificial intelligence conglomerate, will upgrade its AI assistants to give them a range of celebrity voices, including those of Dame Judi Dench and John Cena..
Meta today also announced Llama 3.2, the first version of its free AI models to have visual abilities, broadening their usefulness and relevance for robotics, virtual reality, and so-called AI agents..
Some versions of Llama 3.2 are also the first to be optimized to run on mobile devices..
"Multimodal models are a big deal because the data people and businesses use is not just text, it can come in many different formats, including images and audio or more specialized formats like protein sequences or financial ledgers, says Phillip Isola, a professor at MIT..
With Llama 3.1, Meta showed that open models could finally close the gap with their proprietary counterparts, says Nathan Benaich, founder and general partner of Air Street Capital, and the author of an influential yearly report on AI..
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