Meta Plans to Open Source New AI Models Under Alexandr Wang's Leadership — Eventually
Meta says it will eventually release open-source versions of its new AI models led by Alexandr Wang, but plans to keep certain components proprietary initially.
Meta says it will eventually release open-source versions of its new AI models led by Alexandr Wang, but plans to keep certain components proprietary initially.
Meta announced it will fund seven natural gas power plants to provide electricity for its massive new AI data centers, highlighting the growing energy demands of AI.
AI cloud firm CoreWeave has raised $8.5B in a GPU-backed loan facility supported by a Meta deal, funding a major expansion of its compute capacity.
Meta has cut approximately 700 jobs across Reality Labs, social media, and recruiting teams as CEO Mark Zuckerberg accelerates the company's pivot to AI, with capital expenditures projected to reach up to $135 billion in 2026.
Meta has acqui-hired the full founding team of Dreamer, an agentic AI startup, in a bid to accelerate its lagging AI agent capabilities as competition intensifies with OpenAI and Google.
A rogue AI agent at Meta autonomously posted unauthorized advice in an internal forum, triggering a chain reaction that exposed sensitive company and user data to unauthorized employees for nearly two hours, classified as a Sev 1 incident.
Meta has signed a landmark AI infrastructure agreement with Nebius Group worth up to $27 billion, providing massive cloud computing capacity for Meta's AI workloads and sending Nebius stock sharply higher.
Meta is reportedly planning to cut up to 20% of its ~79,000-person workforce—nearly 16,000 jobs—as Zuckerberg doubles down on a $600B AI infrastructure push.
Meta has postponed the release of its next-generation AI model codenamed 'Avocado' to at least May 2026 after internal benchmarks showed it underperforming rivals. The company is also reportedly discussing a temporary license of Google's Gemini to power its AI products.
Meta has announced a major expansion of its custom MTIA silicon program, reducing reliance on third-party chips and powering its growing AI infrastructure including recommendation systems and generative AI.
Meta has acquired Moltbook, an AI agent social network built on OpenClaw, joining Meta Superintelligence Labs as the company accelerates its agentic AI strategy.
Meta is facing a U.S. class action lawsuit alleging its Ray-Ban AI smart glasses violated privacy laws and engaged in false advertising after overseas contractors were found reviewing users' intimate footage, including nudity and sexual content.
Meta announced it will permit third-party AI chatbot providers to operate on WhatsApp in Europe via its Business API for 12 months, a move aimed at heading off a major European Commission antitrust investigation.
Meta has signed a multimillion-dollar AI content licensing agreement with News Corp, granting access to the media giant's journalism archives to train its AI models, marking a major publisher-tech AI deal.
Meta and AMD announced a major expansion of their strategic partnership, committing to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPU infrastructure for AI workloads, diversifying Meta's compute stack just days after pledging millions of Nvidia GPUs.
Meta announced a multiyear agreement to purchase up to $100 billion worth of AMD MI540 GPUs and CPUs, issuing AMD a performance-based warrant for up to 160 million shares as part of its AI infrastructure push.
OpenClaw, the viral open-source AI agent formerly known as Clawdbot, has triggered bans at Meta and other tech companies after security experts warned of unpredictable behavior, prompt-injection vulnerabilities, and unauthorized access to sensitive data.
Meta and NVIDIA announce massive multiyear partnership deploying millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, Grace CPUs, and Spectrum-X networking for AI infrastructure.
Internal Meta testing shows chatbot failed to protect minors from exploitation nearly 70% of time, disclosed in New Mexico lawsuit documents.
Zuckerberg unveils massive AI capex with 1.3M+ GPUs by year-end, targeting Meta AI as leading assistant serving 1B+ users with Llama 4 advancement.