There is a place that you can place an order for Meta’s upcoming headset
Meta, the startup co-founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has unveiled its third virtual reality headset, Quest 3. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the headset will have graphics performance double compared to Quest 2 and will be much better than the Quest Pro, which only runs a last-gen chip. It’ll be available in two variants, XR2 Gen 2 ($200) and XR2 Gen 2 ($250).
Code Llama is Meta’s own artificial intelligence code-writing tool
Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 language model, to generate new code and human-written work. It was powered by GPT-4 and can be updated by Meta’s Copilot, which is used to write and check code. “It’s exciting that they’re releasing the weights to the community,” Stanford postdoctoral researcher Deepak Kumar said.
Humans and machines could play a part in keeping you safe
More than 2,000 people, including a cybersecurity student from Dakota State University, participated in ‘Generative Red Team Challenge: Detecting Threats, Deceptions, Biases and Misinformation with Artificial Intelligence’ at the Defcon security conference. Participants were asked to expose harms, flaws and biases embedded within chatbots and text generation models from Google, Meta, OpenAI and AI startups including Anthropic and Cohere.