Meta's research division forging AI and AR tech
OpenAI unveils a privacy-centric safety monitoring approach, while Anthropic maintains a 30-day data retention policy for its covered models, prompting enterprise concerns and competitive tension in the AI safety space.
Meta is rolling out Pocket, a mobile app that turns prompts into interactive gizmos, a test born from Gizmo and Muse Spark AI. The feature lets users craft interactive mini-games from prompts and remix others, with plans to refine prompts and visuals. Divining the broader strategy, Pocket sits alongside other live Meta experiments aimed at making AI creation mainstream.
The latest reporting shows Meta Technologies embedded a face-recognition system into its Meta AI app for smart glasses, which could identify faces using biometric signatures. The feature was not activated, and newer updates have removed most of the related code, while Meta says the feature is exploratory and no decision has been made.
Thinking Machines has released Inkling, a foundation model designed for customization by enterprises. It draws on large-scale pretraining but is optimized to run with lower compute, offering a tunable balance of cost and performance and open-weight accessibility for fine-tuning on private data.