Curious how long Meta takes to bring its new team & considerable resources to bear and produce a new frontier model. X took a little under two years to go from start to catching up with Grok 3. Meta has an existing effort & compute, but more complex organizational dynamics.
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ByteDance Swan Goggles Challenge Meta’s Metaverse Ambitions
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Meta's #Metaverse Dreams Tested By New ByteDance Swan Goggles $META $QCOM https://
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Traditional Tech Media Loses Influence to Independent Creators
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yep. I was advising a founder recently on launch plans, and I thought about TechCrunch… it used to be so important to a big launch. Checked out their current stats on social and was shocked. We can post about almost anything and get more views than they do. We're the media
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Waymo reaches 100 million autonomous miles milestone
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#18…AND I WILL RIDE 100 MILLIONS MILES La empresa de conducción autónoma Waymo superará la cifra de 100 millones de millas conducidas en su servicio de robot-taxis. Actualmente la cifra total reportada es de 33M hasta Septiembre 2024 significando esto que la empresa de
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Gemini-Embedding-001 Tops MTEB Leaderboard with Cost-Effective Batch Mode
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🚀 Gemini-Embedding-001 is live
— Louis-François Bouchard 🎥🤖 (@Whats_AI) 15 juillet 2025
• Tops the MTEB leaderboard, ahead of OpenAI & Cohere
• Batch mode = 2× cheaper for large-scale RAG
• Pre-compute & cache embeddings for faster retrieval
• Text + code only (no image/audio… yet)
Pure value or oversold? Drop your verdict 👇… pic.twitter.com/RVhwuUhG00Gemini-Embedding-001 is live • Tops the MTEB leaderboard, ahead of OpenAI & Cohere
• Batch mode = 2× cheaper for large-scale RAG
• Pre-compute & cache embeddings for faster retrieval
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AWS Technology Insights from Formula 1 Track at Imola
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Behind the tech at the track, insights from Imola. Watch my video interviewing Julie Souza from @awscloud https://
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Mark Discusses Meta’s Vision for Personal Superintelligence
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"Our mission with the lab is to deliver personal superintelligence to everyone in the world. So that way, we can put that power in every individual's hand." – Mark Watch Mark's full interview with The Information as he goes deeper on Meta's vision for superintelligence and
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Stanford HAI Director Discusses AI Competition and U.S. Regulation
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@StanfordHAI Executive Director @russellwald opened @Reuters Momentum AI San Jose 2025, joining Reuter’s @JLDastin to discuss the current state of AI, big-dollar competition for talent, the U.S. approach to regulation, and more. #ReutersMomentum
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OpenAI Launches Official Podcast on Major Platforms
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Listen to the OpenAI Podcast on— Spotify https://
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Meta, OpenAI, xAI lead AI and tech innovations in 2026
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Top stories in tech today: – Meta to build massive AI superclusters
– Pentagon gives $200M contracts to OpenAI, xAI – Musk’s SpaceX may invest $2B in xAI
– BYD’s electric cars can now park themselves
– Quick hits on other major tech news Read more: https://
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