Tech talent war heats up: Meta poaches Apple AI researchers after OpenAI

[ad_1] Meta, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, recently created a new division called Superintelligence Labs, which will focus on developing artificial general intelligence and work on next-gen large language models. Led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, in the last few days, Meta has […]

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Meta AI rolls out ‘Imagine Me’ feature allowing users to create personalised images

[ad_1] Meta AI is rolling out a new AI-powered feature called “Imagine Me,” in India starting July 17.  The new feature lets users generate AI images of themselves using text prompts within chat windows of Meta platforms like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger.  Last year, META CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a glimpse of this feature […]

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Who is Ruoming Pang, the ex-Apple AI researcher now poached by Meta?

[ad_1] Big tech companies seem to be witnessing unprecedented poaching of talent within the industry. A week after Meta poached top AI researchers from rival OpenAI, Apple seems to have lost one of its top AI researchers to Meta. Ruoming Pang, who is said to be one of Apple’s top executives working on AI, has […]

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Meta deepens AI push with ‘Superintelligence’ lab, source says

[ad_1] Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reorganised the company’s artificial intelligence efforts under a new division called Meta Superintelligence Labs, according to a source on Monday. The division will be headed by Alexandr Wang, former CEO of data labeling startup Scale AI. He will be the chief AI officer of the new initiative at the […]

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OpenAI employee set to join Meta calls the ‘$100 million signing bonus’ fake news

[ad_1] In the last few months, Meta has been poaching AI researchers left and right to its superintelligence lab by paying them hefty “signing bonuses”, which some say amount to $100 million. However, this might not be the case. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Lucas Beyer, who is currently working at OpenAI and […]

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Meta in talks to hire former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman to join AI efforts

[ad_1] Meta Platforms is in talks to hire former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman to join the Facebook parent’s AI efforts, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The social media giant is also in discussion with Daniel Gross, Friedman’s partner in the investment fund NFDG, about joining the company to […]

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Meta AI and Edits app now lets you edit videos using generative AI

[ad_1] Meta, the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company, has launched a new generative AI video editing feature that enables users to edit videos “using a variety of preset AI prompts.” The feature is currently available in the Meta AI app, Meta.AI website and the Edits app. In a blog post, Meta says that users will be able […]

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Facebook parent Meta Platforms launches standalone AI assistant app

[ad_1] Facebook parent Meta Platforms on Tuesday launched a separate app for its Meta AI assistant, similar to those offered by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google. The standalone app comes as Meta looks to boost the AI assistant’s usage, apart from being available within the company’s family of platforms – WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger. […]

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Google’s Gemini AI grows rapidly to 350M global users, but still trails ChatGPT and Meta AI

[ad_1] Google’s flagship AI chatbot app Gemini appears to have witnessed solid user growth in the last year, with over 350 million or 35 crore users globally up till March 2025. The data was revealed as part of the ongoing Google Search antitrust trial, where a US federal court is considering proposed remedies for Google’s […]

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Meta’s head of AI research to depart in May

[ad_1] Meta Platforms’ head of artificial intelligence research, Joelle Pineau, plans to leave the company, at a time when the tech giant is aggressively investing and competing in the AI space. Pineau, who has been with the company for eight years and has led Meta’s Fundamental AI Research group (FAIR) since 2023, will depart on […]

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