Apple AI glasses ‘better made’ than Meta’s now on tap for 2026
WWDC may be just around the corner, but Apple is already looking ahead to 2026. And it’s going to be a big year—along with a folding phone and OLED MacBooks, Apple is also planning to…
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Meta’s surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality
Meta constructed the Llama 4 models using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, which is one way around the limitations of running huge AI models. Think of MoE like having a large team of specialized workers; instead…
Meta’s new “Movie Gen” AI system can deepfake video from a single photo
On Friday, Meta announced a preview of Movie Gen, a new suite of AI models designed to create and manipulate video, audio, and images, including creating a realistic video from a single photo of a…
Meta’s vision for AR isn’t based in reality
Everyone is talking about Meta’s Orion AR glasses so the horny one supposes we must discuss them. Yes, the Macalope, like many others, will now give you opinions about how Orion, a device you cannot…
Meta’s new Quest 3S is the VR headset I wanted last year
The Meta Quest 2 remains the most popular VR headset in the world, at least if we assume that Steam’s hardware survey is an accurate indicator of the VR headset market. And it isn’t even…
LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model
On Thursday, Meta unveiled early versions of its Llama 3 open-weights AI model that can be used to power text composition, code generation, or chatbots. It also announced that its Meta AI Assistant is now…