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Tried it out: Zoom for Meta Quest with video calls as VR avatar
Meta Quest now has an official Zoom app. VR users take part in video conferences as Meta avatars.
Meta poached Apple’s top AI engineer Pang Ruoming with pay package over $256 million
Meta's new “superintelligence” team has some of the highest compensation of any corporate job. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Meta lured Apple’s Pang with pay package exceeding $200M - report
Meta Platforms (META) has offered exceptionally large compensation packages to key hires for its new “superintelligence” ...
Meta offered Apple’s head of foundation models more than $200M to jump ship
Apple’s AI models team head joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs. Now, we know what it took for him to head to Menlo Park.
Meta Hires Apple AI Chief In Major Blow To iPhone Maker’s AI Ambitions
Apple’s top AI executive, Ruoming Pang, is leaving for Meta, marking a major blow to the iPhone maker’s foundation models ...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta pays ‘tens of millions of dollars’ to poach top Apple AI exec — adding to murderers’ row of new hires
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has reportedly poached one of Apple’s top artificial intelligence researchers as part of its ongoing ...
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Meta Invests $3.5B in Ray-Ban, Oakley Maker to Create AI Smart Glasses
Meta has reportedly invested $3.5 billion in EssilorLuxottica, the eyewear company that owns Ray-Ban and Oakley. The two ...
Meta's AI enticements bear fruit: Key Apple employee poached
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly offering AI specialists 100 million US dollars and more. Meta has now snapped up an important ...