Thu. 09/28 – Meta Connect

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🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Meta Connect keynote was yesterday and they announced a bunch of stuff including AI chatbots, a new Quest 3, and the continuation of those Ray-Ban smart glasses that are actually getting kind of interesting. Looks like OpenAI is serious about working with Jony Ive. A big new open-source LLM available to download now. And the new Raspberry Pi 5. Sponsors: ShopBeam.com/ride and code RIDE for up to 40% off TryFum.com and use code ride for 10% off Links: Facebook and Instagram will soon get a slew of AI-powered creator tools (The Verge) Meta is putting AI chatbots everywhere (The Verge) Meta Rolls Out Higher-Priced Quest 3 Headset, Just Ahead of Apple’s Vision Pro (Bloomberg) Meta’s smart glasses can take calls, play music, and livestream from your face (The Verge) OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1bn from SoftBank for AI device venture (FT) Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone (TechCrunch) Elon Musk Wins US Space Force Contract for Starshield (Bloomberg) The Raspberry Pi 5 is finally here (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, September 28th,
0:07.0	2023. I'm Brian McCullough today. The Meta Connect keynote was yesterday
0:11.0	and they announced a whole bunch of stuff including AI
0:13.4	Chadbots a new Quest 3 and the continuation of those Ray-Ban smart
0:17.0	classes that are actually getting kind of interesting. Looks like Open AI is
0:20.8	serious about working with Johnny Ive. A big new open source
0:24.0	LLC is available to download now and the new Raspberry Pie 5. Here's what you
0:29.2	miss today in the world of Tech.
0:38.2	Meta held their Connect event yesterday announcing a whole bunch of things so much in fact that I'm gonna break it up a bit. They announced AI generated chat
0:42.2	stickers for Facebook, Instagram,
0:43.8	what's-app, and messenger, and unveiled new AI-powered image
0:47.1	editing tools for Instagram. So again, this is what I was talking about
0:50.4	recently when we were talking about AI coming to social,
0:53.6	coding the verge. AI powered photo editing on Instagram includes two new features,
0:58.0	restyle and backdrop. With restyle users input a text prompt.
1:02.0	Meta's examples include watercolor or magazine collage, and the tool
1:05.7	updates the existing image based on those directions. The backdrop feature also utilizes a text
1:10.2	prompt by the user to add new AI-generated backgrounds to images
1:13.2	surround me with puppies for example for both editing features meta says it will
1:18.0	identify when images are created using AI tools so audiences can discern whether what they're seeing is
1:23.7	synthetic or human generated. The company says it's experimenting with other
1:27.3	labeling features including visible and invisible markers." They also
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