Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg explores acquiring AI startup Thinking Machines Lab founded by Mira Murati, but talks stall before reaching formal offer stage, as he actively seeks AI acquisitions to enhance Meta's capabilities.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg assembles an AI 'dream team', hiring former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and partner Daniel Gross, doubling down on AI investments after previous efforts fall short of expectations.
Mira Murati, former OpenAI CTO who led development of ChatGPT and DALL-E, secures $2 billion seed round at $10 billion valuation for her new AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Conviction Partners.
Meta's failed $32 billion bid for AI firm Safe Superintelligence leads to hiring its CEO Daniel Gross, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, and taking a stake in their venture fund NFDG.
Foundation Models unleash groundbreaking transfer learning innovations, offering powerful tools and techniques like few-shot learning to accelerate AI development and deployment, revolutionizing the field of machine learning model building.
Mistral unveils Magistral, a new AI language model family, including the 24-billion parameter open-source Magistral Small and the proprietary Magistral Medium for enterprises, promising enhanced reasoning capabilities.
Mark Zuckerberg finalizes a $14 billion deal to invest in Scale AI and hires co-founder Alexandr Wang to lead Meta's AI push, aiming to catch up with rivals like OpenAI in the AI race.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly recruiting a team of around 50 experts to build a 'superintelligence' AI system capable of surpassing human capabilities, driven by frustration with Meta's progress in the highly competitive AI landscape.
Apple introduces Foundation Models framework, empowering developers to harness on-device AI models created by Apple, enabling offline AI-driven experiences with features like guided generation and tool calling, natively supported by Swift and accessible with minimal coding.
Google DeepMind's GraphCast, a state-of-the-art AI model, delivers unprecedented 10-day global weather forecasts with higher accuracy than traditional methods, predicting extreme events earlier and completing forecasts in under a minute, revolutionizing weather prediction.