MetaConnect 2023: CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to hold the tech giant’s Connect developer conference on Wednesday.

MetaConnect 2023:CEO Mark Zuckerberg will hold the tech giant’s Connect developer conference on Wednesday, focusing on virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence. The company, which changed its name to Meta two years ago, announced the next version of its headset, the Quest 3, and launched AI chatbots and other apps designed to keep users interested on Facebook and Instagram in competition with TikTok. We’ll be talking about other tools and features. continue. Insider Intelligence analyst Yoram Wormser said this remains the biggest challenge for Meta.
“A lot of our work around chatbots, Stories, and other ways to maintain engagement, such as personalization through AI, are top of mind for the company,” he said. Citing the collapse of online advertising and global economic uncertainty, Meta has cut more than 20,000 jobs since last November. Mr. Zuckerberg called 2023 the company’s “year of efficiency,” as the company cuts headcount and focuses on hiring technology employees, such as AI experts, to focus on Meta’s long-term vision. I called it.
Artificial intelligence is central to this vision. Over the summer, Meta released the next generation of large-scale AI language models and made the technology, known as Llama 2, free for research and commercial use.
Like its technology colleagues Google and Microsoft, Meta has long had a large research team of computer scientists dedicated to further developing AI technology. But that was overshadowed when the release of ChatGPT sparked a rush to create new prose, images, and other media using “generative AI” tools.
Zuckerberg said at the time that people could download his new AI model directly or through a partnership that would make it available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform “along with Microsoft’s security and content tools.” .