Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to kick off developer conference with focus on AI, virtual reality

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will kick off the tech giant's Connect developer conference with a focus on virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence

since last November. Zuckerberg dubbed 2023 the company’s “year of efficiency” as it reduces its workforce while focusing on more technical hires such as experts in AI to focus on Meta’s long-term vision.

Artificial intelligence is central to that vision. Over the summer, Meta released the next generation of itsand made the technology, known as Llama 2, free for research and commercial use. Much like tech peers Google and Microsoft, Meta has long had a big research team of computer scientists devoted to advancing AI technology. But it’s been overshadowed as the release of ChatGPT sparked a rush to profit off of “generative AI” tools that can create new prose, images and other media.

Zuckerberg said at the time that people can download its new AI models directly or through a partnership that makes them available on Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure “along with Microsoft’s safety and content tools.”

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