58: Advancing GenAI at Meta

Meta Tech Podcast

For this last episode of 2024, Pascal talks with Devi, an AI research director at Meta. They talk about the history of AI at Meta, some of the basic terms, how Meta's approach to developing and using AI differs notably from other companies and what the future has in store.

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Links

• Meta AI Blog: https://ai.meta.com/

• Purple Llama: https://ai.meta.com/blog/purple-llama-open-trust-safety-generative-ai/

• AI Alliance: https://ai.meta.com/blog/ai-alliance/

• Audiobox: https://ai.meta.com/blog/audiobox-generating-audio-voice-natural-language-prompts/

• Emu Video and Emu Edit: https://ai.meta.com/blog/emu-text-to-video-generation-image-editing-research/

• Meta AI Agents: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/09/introducing-ai-powered-assistants-characters-and-creative-tools/

Timestamps

• Intro 0:00

• Introduction Devi 2:27

• AI vs ML 4:00

• History of AI at Meta 6:03

• Deep learning and LLMs 9:32

• LLMs vs GenAI 11:42

• Multi-modal models 12:21

• Meta's AI agents 14:33

• Meta's open approach to AI 16:53

• Image and video generation and editing 22:28

• Most exciting future AI developments 27:17

• Outro 28:57