Meta's head of artificial intelligence research, Joelle Pineau, is leaving the company at a time when the tech giant is pouring billions into AI development to keep pace with industry rivals. Pineau, ...

Her departure comes at a challenging time for Meta. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made AI a top priority, investing billions of dollars in an effort to become the market leader ahead of ...

In 2023, she began directing Meta's AI research division, formerly known as Facebook AI Research, which had been founded a decade earlier by a group that included pioneering AI researcher Yann LeCun.

Social media giant Meta could be forced to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp as a legal battle begins in the US. Owned by ...

Casper and his fellow co-authors probed several recent models from Meta, Google ... Mike Cook, a research fellow at King’s College London specializing in AI who wasn’t involved with the ...

Meta’s big pivot to AI ... and Anthropic. Its head of AI research just left, an internal reorganization is underway, and the company is dealing with accusations that it gamed popular performance ...

A legal case involving Meta revealed the company's ... hidden Related stories In 2017, the Google research paper that kicked off the generative AI boom disclosed granular information on the ...

Meta's open-source AI strategy is faltering due to superior, cost-effective Chinese models like DeepSeek's R1, which outperform Meta's offerings. Chinese tech giants, leveraging a vast talent pool ...

The changes would not apply to the accounts of users under 18, nor to private messages sent to family and friends, Meta said. AI is an overriding priority for Mark Zuckerberg-owned Meta as for ...

and the energy-guzzling technology's potential contribution to climate change. When Meta AI first launched in the EU in late March, the tech giant was at pains to point out that the chatbot was ...

Meta announced today that it will soon start training its artificial intelligence models using content shared by European adult users on its Facebook and Instagram social media platforms.