Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang told employees in an internal town hall that the company's unreleased model, codenamed Watermelon, has matched OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks, giving CEO Mark Zuckerber…
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, confirmed via official access on April 23, 2026. The model achieves a score of 96.6 on the Agentic#2 benchmark and 1474.62 on LM Arena, while Meta's rival model Watermelon…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed fears about AI-related job displacement, arguing that a focus on empowering individuals rather than automating knowledge work could lead to more jobs. He contrasted …
OpenAI, Meta, and Google are using food-related codenames for AI projects, including OpenAI's 'Jalapeño' chip and 'Garlic' LLM, Meta's 'Avocado' model, and Google's 'Nano Banana' image generator. The …
Meta forced roughly 6,500 engineers into a new unit called Agent Data Optimization to manufacture training data for AI models, a move employees describe as soul-crushing and liken to a gulag. The invo…
Meta's Applied AI unit, a 6,500-person team created to power CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI ambitions, is in turmoil after elite engineers were forcibly reassigned to data-labeling tasks, with employees des…
Meta rolled out its proprietary foundation model Muse Spark in April after spending $14.3 billion to acquire Alexandr Wang and his Scale AI team, but the company has repeatedly delayed the public API …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg brought Alexandr Wang into the company last year to lead an AI reset, and the focus has now shifted to commercializing Wang's work, with the first major product, Muse Spark, r…
Meta spent over $14.3 billion to hire Alexandr Wang and former Scale AI engineers, who delivered the proprietary foundation model Muse Spark in April, marking a shift from Meta's open-weight strategy.…
Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced at the Bloomberg Tech conference on June 5 that health capabilities will be the key differentiator for Meta's next-generation AI models, moving beyond raw…
Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said the company's recently launched Muse Spark model is "not at the tier of the leading frontier models," calling it an "appetizer" while Meta trains stronger syst…
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang said health capabilities will be a key differentiator for future Meta AI models as the company scales them to billions of users. Wang, who joined Met…
Meta has delayed the release of an API for its Muse Spark AI model, leaving developers without access two months after the model's April launch. The company initially promised the API would arrive "so…
Top AI executives including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis signed a public letter urging Congress to enact laws requiring synthetic DNA sellers and…
AI industry leaders including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman signed an open letter urging US lawmakers to mandate screening of synthetic DNA and RNA or…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei signed an open letter urging policymakers to require synthetic nucleic acid providers to screen orders for dangerous sequences and verify customer …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hired 28-year-old start-up founder Alexandr Wang a year ago to overhaul the company's struggling artificial intelligence division, betting on an outsider's urgency over vetera…
Silicon Valley executives have successfully promoted the narrative of an AI race with China to advance their policy agenda in Washington, according to a forthcoming academic paper. The tech industry's…