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Developer

Meta's Muse Glimmer Launch and Zuckerberg's Personal Superintelligence Essay Mark a Return to Open-Weight Leadership

Meta released Muse Glimmer, an open-weight 30B-parameter multimodal agent model under Apache 2.0, optimized for local deployment on consumer GPUs. CEO Mark Zuckerberg published an essay on Personal Superintelligence, outlining Meta's vision for accessible AI and addressing labor, geopolitics, and compute. The release signals Meta's return to open-weight leadership.

Aug 1113 minNeura News

AI Models

Meta's Muse Glimmer Brings Personal Superintelligence to Your Laptop

Meta released Muse Glimmer, an open-weight 30B parameter AI model designed to run local agents on consumer hardware. The model, available under Apache 2.0, supports text and images across 100+ languages, enabling on-device tasks like scheduling and coding. CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vision of personal superintelligence is realized through this release, balancing open weights with the proprietary Muse Spark.

Aug 105 minNeura News

Funding

Recursive Superintelligence Inks $410M AWS Compute Deal

AI startup Recursive Superintelligence has signed a $410 million compute agreement with Amazon Web Services. The deal, announced Tuesday, covers multi-year cloud infrastructure for the company's self-improving AI systems. CEO Richard Socher expects this to be the smallest of many future compute deals as the company scales.

Jul 283 minNeura News

Industry

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with AWS

Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services on Tuesday. The company, which exited stealth in May with $650 million in funding, focuses on building self-improving AI systems. The multi-year agreement provides flexibility as the startup scales its compute-intensive research and aims to release its first products by October.

Jul 283 minNeura News

AI Models

Meta's Muse Image model draws praise and raises privacy questions

Meta released Muse Image, its first image generation model from the Superintelligence Labs. The model works as an agent, using external tools like web search to refine outputs. It ranks second behind OpenAI's GPT Image 2 on the Image Arena platform. A feature that lets users generate AI images of others by @-mentioning their Instagram usernames, without consent, is already drawing criticism from privacy regulators in Europe.

Jul 84 minNeura News

AI Models

Meta Launches Muse AI Image Generator for Free Use

Meta has released Muse Image, a new AI image generator developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs. The tool, internally called Mango, is available for free through the Meta AI app and on Instagram Stories and WhatsApp. It allows users to create cartoonish images, custom ads, and edit photos, with a video generator also in development.

Jul 72 minNeura News

Industry

Microsoft AI chief says superintelligence near but safe

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, says superintelligence is approaching but won't eliminate jobs. In an interview, he discusses Microsoft's restructured AI division after a new contract with OpenAI, the announcement of seven new models at Build, and his views on human-level AI performance in chat and reasoning tasks.

Jun 84 minNeura News

Funding

Recursive Superintelligence Launches with $650M Funding

Richard Socher has launched Recursive Superintelligence, a San Francisco startup emerging from stealth with $650 million in funding. The company aims to build a recursively self-improving AI that fixes its own weaknesses without human help. Socher and his team of top researchers discussed their open-endedness approach in a recent interview.

May 143 minNeura News

Funding

Top Researchers Launch $4B Startup for Self-Improving AI

Former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers have started Recursive Superintelligence with over $650 million in funding and a $4 billion valuation. The six-month-old firm aims to create AI that improves itself. Backed by investors like GV, Greycroft, Nvidia and AMD, it joins efforts to automate AI development amid recent advances in code-writing AI systems.

May 133 minNeura News

Funding

Recursive Emerges from Stealth with $650M for Self-Improving AI

AI startup Recursive has left stealth mode with $650 million in funding to pursue self-improving AI systems. The company sees recursive self-improvement as the quickest way to superintelligence and plans to automate the scientific method starting with AI research. Backed by GV, Greycroft, AMD Ventures, and Nvidia, Recursive is led by experts from Salesforce, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, and Uber AI.

May 133 minNeura News

Industry

Meta Acquires ARI to Boost Humanoid Robotics Efforts

Meta has purchased humanoid robotics firm Assured Robot Intelligence for an undisclosed amount. The startup's team will integrate into Meta's Superintelligence Labs. This move supports Meta's long-term goals in developing AI for humanoid robots.

May 13 minNeura News

Industry

Meta Acquires Assured Robot Intelligence for Humanoid AI

Meta has purchased humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition brings ARI's team, including co-founders Xiaolong Wang and Lerrel Pinto, to Meta's Superintelligence Labs. The move supports Meta's ongoing work in humanoid robotics and aligns with industry views on physical training for advanced AI.

May 13 minNeura News