On September twenty fifth, Meta unveiled a ton of AI-related merchandise and developments at its Join occasion.
The corporate shined the highlight on its Orion augmented actuality (AR) glasses prototype. However there have been additionally different necessary updates that obtained overshadowed by the flashy, however distant, AR product.
What’s really value listening to from Meta Join 2024?
I obtained the news from Advertising and marketing AI Institute founder and CEO Paul Roetzer on Episode 117 of The Synthetic Intelligence Present.
Orion AR Glasses: A (Distant) Imaginative and prescient of the Future
It’s clear that Meta wished Orion to be the beginning of the present. The glasses resemble common eyewear, however embrace superior projection know-how and generative AI capabilities to create extraordinarily mild, wearable, and succesful AR eyewear.
However Orion is just not remotely near being a shopper product.
Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth posted on X about Orion:
“I feel the important thing factor folks need to know is these glasses are usually not coming any time quickly,” says Roetzer.
He’s additionally not bullish on Meta’s means to tug this off. CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems obsessive about decreasing his dependence on different platforms, like Apple’s App Retailer. So he needs to regulate the platform of the long run (which, he appears to hope, shall be AR wearables).
Nonetheless, Meta faces large hurdles in manufacturing at scale in comparison with rivals like Apple and Google. Whereas it is unwise to guess in opposition to Zuckerberg’s imaginative and prescient and assets, Roetzer believes Apple and Google have benefits in chips, batteries, provide chain, and manufacturing experience.
“If I am putting futures on who wins for glasses, it isn’t Meta, for my part,” Roetzer says. “I am betting on Apple and Google on this one.”
Llama 3.2: The Ignored Star
Whereas Orion dominated headlines, Meta’s announcement of Llama 3.2 might need extra instant impression, together with:
New 11 billion and 90 billion parameter fashions able to processing and reasoning about photographs.
Efficiency corresponding to closed fashions on numerous benchmarks.
1 billion and three billion parameter fashions designed for edge and cellular units.
It’s simply the most recent set of spectacular improvements in Meta’s quest to dominate the open AI ecosystem—and doubtless extra value listening to than Orion in the intervening time.
“They cannibalized their very own information [about Llama] with a product that, clearly, Zuckerberg simply wished to point out off,” says Roetzer.
And, lest we overlook within the Orion hype, the corporate additionally made a number of different bulletins, together with:
Quest 3S VR Headset: A brand new digital actuality headset priced at $299.99.
Ray-Ban Good Glasses Replace: Improved AI responsiveness in present sensible glasses.
AI-Generated Content material: Fb and Instagram are testing AI-generated content material inside their platforms.
Movie star AI Voices: New celeb voices accessible for Meta’s AI chatbots.
