Month: April 2024
Meta says Llama 3 beats most other models, including Gemini
Llama 3 currently features two model weights, with 8B and 70B parameters. (The B is for billions and represents how complex a model is and how much of its training it understands.) It only offers text-based responses so far, but Meta says these are “a major leap” over the previous…
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Meta rolls out new Meta AI website, and it might just bury Microsoft and Google’s AI dreams
Meta AI is getting a new upgrade as Meta tries to establish dominance in the generative AI marketplace against OpenAI and Google. The announcement came from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself on Threads, where he touted some stats and details about the new Llama 3 model used to underpin Meta…
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The podcast industry keeps reinventing itself
This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Today is my last day at The Verge, and this will be my final issue of Hot Pod. I’ll have one more story coming out in the next week or two. But until then, I wanted to offer some…
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The Humane AI Pin is lost in translation
Of all the things the Humane AI Pin promised, I was most intrigued by translation. In a demo, a man speaks to Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri in Spanish. The AI Pin automatically translates it to English. Chaudhri replies in English. Again, the AI Pin translates his words back into Spanish.…
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The HD Chromecast with Google TV is on sale for only $20
If you watch movies and TV on a 1080p screen, the Chromecast with Google TV (HD) provides a rock-solid streaming experience on the cheap. This is the HD version of Engadget’s top choice for streaming devices. Today, Amazon has it for $10 off, letting you pick up the HDR10-capable streaming…
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Seagate claims its flagship hard drives could last more than 7 years — world’s largest HDD vendor transferred a whopping 3.2PB of data by getting a drive head to work continuously over 6000 hours
Seagate recently announced the results of an experimental test that showed one of its hard drives could run continuously for over 6,000 hours. By leveraging advanced hard-drive recording (HAMR) technology, the world’s biggest hard disk vendor claims it was able to transfer a whopping 3.2PB of data in that period,…
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