GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI
and he's not alone Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : GPT-5 is here and Gary Marcus is not impressed Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ amid rough roll-out ...
Metaverse startup Infinite Reality, which claims a $15B+ valuation, told shareholders it is rebranding as Napster, an “AI-powered digital experiences” provider
Florida-based metaverse startup Infinite Reality, which claimed to have raised one of this year's largest funding rounds …
Roblox rolls out real-time AI chat translations, with support for 16 languages, built on an LLM trained on open-source and internal Roblox data
Works in 16 languages — Metaverse platform Roblox is bringing a new AI translation tool online for its millions of users around the world …
Experts warn against unrealistic expectations for quantum computers, citing the challenges in making fault-tolerant systems, qubits' slow operating speeds, more
That's the message coming from a small but vocal set of prominent skeptics in and around the emerging quantum computing industry. — Fault tolerance and slow operating speeds remain difficult challen...
In a Q&A using Meta's photorealistic Pixel Codec Avatars, Mark Zuckerberg discusses the metaverse, Quest 3, the nature of reality, AI, and humanity's future
Zuckerberg might have just infused life into the Metaverse—by ‘life,’ we mean literally. Denis Omelchenko / crypto.news : Meta's Zuckerberg reveals new photorealistic avatars for metaverse Tom Carter ...
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $32B, net income up 16% YoY to $7.79B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.07B for June 2023; META jumps 10%+
but most of the new users came from outside the US and Canada Karissa Bell / Engadget : Meta had its best quarter since 2021 despite losing more money on the metaverse Abubakar Idris / The Messenger :...
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has over 30M signups, up from 10M within seven hours of launch, 5M in four hours, and 2M in two hours
what you need to know Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Twitter should be worried as Threads racks up 30 million sign ups in less than 24 hours Livemint : Elon Musk hits out at Zuckerberg as Threads seems ‘Thre...
Apple Vision Pro shows that current AR/VR devices, like Meta's Quests, aren't good enough to break out of the gaming market and need a step change in capability
Apple Vision Pro Vlad Savov / Bloomberg : Apple's Growth Vision Is Getting Hard for Some to See Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely : Apple's Vision Pro headset is a hobby. Why won't Tim Cook say that? D...
Apple Vision Pro shows that current AR/VR devices, like Meta's Quest, aren't good enough to break out of the gaming market and need a step change in capability
The narrative for VR and AR has been pretty static for years. We have a dream of AR devices that look like a pair of glasses … LinkedIn: Benedict Evans and Gurdeep Pall Tweets: @twizzles7 , @bernardl...
Meta unveils the $500 Quest 3, “the first mainstream headset with high-res color MR”, slimmer and over 2x the GPU performance vs. the Quest 2, coming this fall
Coming this fall! https://www.youtube.com/... #metaquest #meta #virtualreality #technology Ankita Chaturvedi : Very excited and proud to share the most powerful and affordable VR headset Quest 3 with...