Here is the compilation of today’s five of the biggest breaking news from the world of AI & Tech.
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Meta launches Orion – its first truly AR Glasses
At Wednesday’s Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled AR glasses that company believes could prove to be a game changer for the nascent AR smart glass industry. Named as ‘Orion,’ it integrates advanced AR capabilities for adding lot of value to your everyday life, from multitasking windows and big screen entertainment to life-size holograms of people. However, Orion is currently still in prototype stage and will probably takes months before it is launched into the market. But developers will get an early access to Meta’s latest AR glasses. The future of the AR smart glasses probably looks pretty bright, with Snap unveiling its own AR glasses ‘spectacles’ barely a week.
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Meta rolls out Llama 3.2 with multimodal vision support
Meta on Wednesday new generation of large language models, Llama 3.2, which is first model from Meta that understands text as well as images. Llama 3.2 includes small and medium sized models that can comprehend several visual oriented tasks, such as image captioning and visual question answering. It offers multimodal support in 8 languages including English, German, French and Italian. Additionally, Meta’s Llama 3.2 also offers text only model, which comes in 1B and 3B parameters. It can fulfil tasks like summarization and multilingual knowledge retrieval. Llama 3.2 is available on Amazon Bedrock and Hugging Face.
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OpenAI’s CTO Mira Murati is leaving the company
OpenAI’s brain drain continues as its current CTO Mira Murati become the latest to executive to step down from the company. Along with Murati, two other top management executives are also departing. These executives are Bob McGrew, who is OpenAI Chief Research Officer and Barret Zoph, who is the VP of post training. Commenting on these high-profile departures, Sam Altman said in his note to employees that “Leadership changes are natural part of the companies, especially companies that are growing so quickly and so demanding.” Parallelly, the company seems to be in an upside, after reportedly completing $1 Bn funding.
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Disney+ officially starts rolling out password sharing crackdown
Starting from today Disney+ will start rolling out its password sharing crackdown in the US and other select markets. Disney+ has unveiled a Paid Sharing program to initiate the password sharing crackdown. By subscribing to the paid sharing program, subscribers can add an extra member by paying $6.99 for Disney + Basic plan or $9.99 for Disney + Premium. Kindly note that only one extra member will be allowed per account. If your account is part of Disney Bundle then you won’t be allowed to add an extra member.
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Meta to launch AI tools that dubs Reels in other languages with lip sync
Meta unveiled a very interesting AI feature for its short video app Reels. This AI feature will automatically translate the content of the Reels video into another language. However, the truly amazing thing is that it can simulate speaker’s voice in another language along with syncing their lips. The capabilities of this AI tool were showed in a demo video by Mark Zuckerberg himself at the Meta’s Connect Event on Wednesday. Although this wasn’t a live demo video, the feature and its capabilities did look very impressive. Meta said that it will initially launch this feature only for limited users in English and Spanish languages in US and Latin America. It will add more language support in ensuing months. However, Meta refused to give exact timeline as to when it intends to launch this AI feature.
