Meta is cutting off support for the original Quest headset at the end of April

Meta is cutting off support for the original Quest headset at the end of April

Support for the original Oculus Quest headset will soon end as Meta has sent out emails to developers informing them of the company’s future plans for the device. Forbes managed to get their hands on the details, and according to their report, the tech giant is going to be strict. They really do not want … Read more

Vision Pro spatial Personas are like Apple’s version of the metaverse without the Meta

Vision Pro spatial Personas are like Apple’s version of the metaverse without the Meta

While the initial hype over Apple Vision Pro may have died down, Apple is still busy developing and rolling out fresh updates, including a new one that lets multiple Personas work and play together. Apple briefly demonstrated this capability when it introduced the Vision Pro and gave me my first test-drive last year but now … Read more

The EU is already investigating Apple, Meta and Google over fees and defensive policies

The EU is already investigating Apple, Meta and Google over fees and defensive policies

We had the first wave of changes and tweaks to Apple, Google and other big tech companies’ policies and services just before the EU’s sweeping Digital Markets Act (DMA) took a harder line against monopolistic behaviors and practices. See: third-party app stores with Apple, the option to pay for Facebook (haha!), the ability to choose … Read more

EU Opens Non-Compliance Investigations into Apple, Meta, and Google

EU Opens Non-Compliance Investigations into Apple, Meta, and Google

Apple’s compliance with new EU laws designed to rein in the market power of big tech companies is set to be investigated by regulators, the European Commission has announced. The Commission said on Monday that non-compliance investigations have been opened against Apple, Google, and Meta, under the new Digital Markets Act (DMA). The probe into … Read more

Meta sheds more light on how it is evolving Llama 3 training — it relies for now on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPU, but how long before Meta switches to its own AI chip?

Meta sheds more light on how it is evolving Llama 3 training — it relies for now on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPU, but how long before Meta switches to its own AI chip?

Meta has unveiled details about its AI training infrastructure, revealing that it currently relies on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train its open source Llama 3 LLM.  The company says it will have over 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in service by the end of 2024, and the computing power equivalent to nearly 600,000 H100s … Read more