Source: Meta is spending hundreds of millions per year to use trillions of AI tokens weekly via Azure, quietly becoming one of Microsoft's largest AI customers
Meta Platforms Inc. has become one of Microsoft Corp.'s biggest AI customers, underscoring how demand for the emerging technology remains concentrated in the tech industry.
Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated 3B+ global downloads in the past six months; Hugging Face: Google had 418M downloads while Meta had 227M in 2026
Alibaba Group Holding's open-weight models have accumulated more than 3 billion global downloads in the past six months …
Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated 3B+ global downloads in the past six months; Hugging Face: Google had 418M downloads while Meta had 227M in 2026
Alibaba Group Holding's open-weight models have accumulated more than 3 billion global downloads in the past six months …
Manus says it will “soon return to operating as an independent company”, implying it is close to reversing its acquisition by Meta, after China's order in April
AI startup Manus said on Tuesday that it will “soon return to operating as an independent company,” …
Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation
As closed-source models have gotten more expensive, businesses have found workarounds by customizing open-source AI for their specific needs.
Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, putting Meta next to SpaceXAI in a tie for third place amongst US labs
Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, putting Meta next to SpaceXAI in a tie for third place amongst US labs
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How Trump's push for data centers is driving a boom in gas power plants, and a look at Meta's El Paso data center, which will have 813 gas-burning generators
In March, a developer working on a Meta data center in El Paso applied to power the site with a gas-burning plant large enough to supply electricity to 300,000 homes.
Meta is offering a cheaper Muse Spark 1.2 “contributor” tier priced at $0.10/1M input and $0.20/1M output tokens in exchange for using user prompts for training
The company, pressed by investors to generate revenue from AI, says its offering will cost less than popular alternatives