Famed Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator on Wednesday kicked off its two-day “Demo Day” event that showcases what the most recent YC batch, S24, companies are building. Unsurprisingly, AI companies dominated the day, with startups looking to apply the technology to problems like estate planning and settlements, Elayne; automating clinical trial data, Baseline AI; … Read more
Announced at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday, Meta is launching a new VR app called Hyperscape that renders recreations of real-life spaces in high fidelity, so you can explore them while wearing a Quest headset. Available in beta in the U.S., Hyperscape lets you use a phone to scan a room and then recreate it. … Read more
Following the abrupt departure of OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, CEO Sam Altman is reportedly poised to receive equity in the company for the first time as OpenAI moves away from its longstanding nonprofit structure. Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter, reports that OpenAI plans to restructure into a for-profit benefit corporation — similar to … Read more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced updates to the company’s Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday. Meta continued to make the case that smart glasses can be the next big consumer device, announcing some new AI capabilities and familiar features from smartphones coming to Ray-Ban Meta later this year. Some of Meta’s … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday during Meta Connect 2024 that Meta AI is one of the most used AI assistant across the world with “almost” 500 million monthly active users. Zuckerberg said that Meta AI is on track to become the most used assistant across the world. “We’re almost at 500 million monthly activities, and we … Read more
OpenAI’s CTO Mira Murati posted on X on Wednesday saying she is leaving the company. Murati said she is stepping away to do her own exploration, after over six years at the AI startup. “After much reflection, I have made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI,” she said in the post. “There’s never an ideal … Read more
During its developer keynote at the Meta Connect conference on Wednesday, the company pitched its Quest mixed reality platform to developers as the next big app store. As tech giants like Apple and Google are under tightened regulations over their app store monopolies, Meta says it’s working to make it easier for mobile developers to … Read more
Three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg’s big day was a flop. At his company’s annual developer conference – then called Facebook Connect – he unveiled his grand plans to turn his trillion dollar social network into “a metaverse company.” He changed the name of his company to Meta, and we braced for a world where we … Read more
AI has already given us some weird demos. And friends, it’s only going to get weirder from here. As the tech world runs screaming head first into the uncanny valley, lines will blur and every will continue getting stranger. Take, for example, Wednedsay’s Meta Connect keynote. There was a constant drum beat Meta AI and … Read more
During Wednesday’s Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a slew of new AI-fueled features for the company’s Ray-Ban collaboration. The most interesting of the bunch is the addition of real-time translation through the glasses’ speakers. Meta explains: Soon, your glasses will be able to translate speech in real time. When you’re talking to someone … Read more