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Meta Platforms is the technology conglomerate formerly known as Facebook, rebranded in 2021 to signal its pivot toward building the metaverse . The company owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, giving it massive built-in distribution for any product it launches . Its AI strategy centers on open-source large language models through the Llama family, with Llama 3.1's 405B version released in mid-2024 benchmarked against top closed models like GPT-4o .
In recent years Meta has pursued aggressive AI talent acquisition. It acquired the Gizmo team in March 2025 and the Manus team (Butterfly Effect) by year-end , while CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally recruited top researchers from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic with multimillion-dollar packages . The company has also reorganized roughly 3,000 engineers toward reinforcement learning and agent development, and briefly experimented with internal screen-recording tools to train workplace agents before pausing due to internal pushback . On infrastructure, Meta is building out its own AI compute capacity with projections that its internal GPU fleet could exceed OpenAI and Anthropic's combined by end of 2026 . Its hardware bets include the Quest VR line (acquired via Oculus) and Ray-Ban smart glasses , while partnerships with Microsoft span both cloud and XR integration . Notably, longtime AI chief scientist Yann LeCun departed in late 2025 to found AMI Labs, betting that LLMs are a dead end and world models represent the path forward .
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The First Manus Cup Singapore Concept Essay Competition
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A deep understanding of users and exceptional product engineering ability are what truly scarce in this era.
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Counselor Vitality
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Counselor Vitality
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BlueRun Ventures Family | VITURE, Which Just Raised $50 Million, Says: "AI and AR Will Eventually Converge Into a New Generation of Multimodal Devices"
The barrier to entry for AI glasses is high, requiring tight integration of software, hardware, and AI capabilities.
Ten Thousand-Word Interview with Perplexity's Growth Lead: People Need to Hear About Your Product 3 to 7 Times Before They Actually Try It
Growth is a game of intuition.
20 Questions to Understand DeepSeek and the "Second Half of AI" It Ushered In
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Open source doesn't just make technology more transparent — it drives progress across the entire industry.
Coconut by Meta AI: Using Continuous Chains of Thought for Better LLM Reasoning | Bolt Picks
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Adapting to Change
Essential SEO for the AI Era | Bolt Recommends
Vercel Research: The Rise of AI Crawlers
The AR path is grueling, but Xu Chi still wants to know what the finish line looks like | WAVES
Those without ideals don't grieve.
30,000-Word Transcript: A Google DeepMind Researcher on Deconstructing OpenAI o1 and the LLM+RL Paradigm | Z Talk
The most hardcore, no-fluff technical breakdown of o1.
OpenAI's Flagship AI PDF Tool: This Wrapper Product Hit 500K Users in a Year With a Team of 5 | Z Talk
Why Won't Wrapper Products Get Crushed by ChatGPT?
A Look at 2024's AI Innovations in China: From Models to Hardware, From Applications to the Rise of Super-Individuals
Let's preserve the AI innovations that brought us excitement and encouragement in 2024.
Interview with Final Round Founder Michael: How AI Is Disrupting Traditional Recruitment | 100 Questions on AI Applications
Help users find work they truly love.
Opening the "Black Box," Building In-House Models, and a Chat About AI Entrepreneurship and Creation | 5Y Pub Vol. 22 with Yuan Xingyuan of ColorfulClouds Technology
How can we get AI to create works on par with *The Three-Body Problem*?
Crossing x Abotify x a16z: Let's Talk About the AI World 1,000 Days From Now at the Peking University Stanford Center | Beijing Offline Gathering
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Bolt Picks | The Opportunities and Challenges of Synthetic Data
Synthetic Data: The Future of AI?
September AI Watch: New Models, New Apps, and Where AGI Goes From Here | Yunqi Capital Attent!on Tech Notes
The Revolution Continues
VAST Closes New Funding Round: Is 3D the Last Ticket for AIGC?
Will 3D Be the Future?
A Conversation with Tsinghua University Professor Chen Wenguang: What If Large Models Stop Competing on "Largeness"?
Are Large Models Cooling Down, Fei-Fei Li's New Project, and AI's Sunshine for All
Silicon Valley Observations: Startups, Investment, and Tech Giants — What Changes and What Doesn't in the Generative AI Wave | Yunqi Capital Tech Notes
Where the tide rose, is AI still hot?
"Six-Pack Abs" Aren't Just a Dream: AI Can Make It Come True
One-click muscle gain.
10,000-Word Interview with Perplexity AI CEO: Advertising Is the Greatest Business Model; $20/Month Subscriptions Are Not | Z Talk
The value isn't in the model — it's in the people who create it.
OpenAI: "Tremble, cheating children — I will catch you!"
Tremble!
Ten Thousand-Word Conversation with Scale AI Founder Alex Wang: Why Data, Not Compute, Is the Biggest Bottleneck for Large Models｜Z Talk
We've exhausted all the easily accessible data.
Jensen Huang: "Here, Zuck, let me get you a leather jacket."
*Let Me Keep You Warm*
Yunqi Research Select | Mid-Year AI Industry Review: Ten Hopes and Heartbreaks in the Year of Implementation
How Does the Balance Between Cost and Effectiveness Tip?
"Many people don't realize it, but today is a historic day for AI..."
Years later, looking back.
Coatue's Take on 2024: No AI Bubble, and US VC Exits Are Struggling Too
A tale of two extremes.
Apple: The Ultimate Harvester of AI Dividends
Apple's Strategic Layout in the AI Era
A 10,000-Word Chronicle: The LLM Infrastructure Years, From the Dark Ages to the Golden Age to the Silver Age
The low-hanging fruit has been almost entirely picked. What now?
"I Want to Shatter Your Unrealistic Fantasies About AI, and Rebuild a Correct Understanding" | Podcast
The most knowledge-dense episode of "Crossing" podcast ever is here!
"I Want to Shatter Your Unrealistic Fantasies About AI and Rebuild a Proper Understanding" | A Conversation with Leding Li, Baidu Principal Architect in the Trenches
Event Recap | How AI Startups Can Drive Overseas Growth and Business Model Innovation
A Growth Guide for Internationalizing AI Products
Huang Songyan, Linear Capital: I've Moved to Munich, Hunting for Deals Across Europe
Fresh opportunities are surfacing.
The Era of Private Cloud: How AI NAS Is Reshaping Your Digital Life | FreeS Research Institute
Beyond Traditional Storage: Build Your Personal Cloud
AI's Big May Exam, Microsoft Turns In Its Paper | Yunqi Tech π
How Can AI Save Your Productivity?
Zhang Genghua, Source Code Capital: The Answer to Going Global Is North America
Chinese companies excel at consumer-facing (to C) businesses.
Yunqi Capital Year-End Roundup | Annual Deep-Dive Report: AI + Open Source + Commercialization = ?
Three Years Running: The New Trends in Open Source + AI
Code Brain | "The Coming Age of Abundance": A Transcript of Elon Musk's New Year Interview
Code Brain | Top 10 AI Predictions for 2024
Heading into 2024: How We Think About AI Startup Investing | FreeS Fund Year-End Special
From 2023 to 2024: AI's Advances, Challenges, and New Opportunities
Heaven's Feel: The Root of AI and Gaming | 5Y View
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Happy first birthday to ChatGPT-3.5! What new lessons have AI and we learned over the past year? | Yunqi Tech Talk
AI's Spectacular Year
Charlie Munger's Only Podcast Appearance
Counselor on Vitality / Counselor for Life Force (Note: This appears to be a title or role name without additional context. If this refers to a specific position or program, more context would help determine the precise translation.)
HydroX AI, a large model security and safe AI technology company, has raised $4 million in angel funding — led by Oasis Capital
Counselor Vitality
AIGC "Summit Series" | Event Registration: Where Are LLMs in the Deployment Cycle?
On Products, On Execution
How Far Are We From "Ready Player One"? The Technical Challenges of XR Through the Lens of Apple Vision Pro | FreeS Report 33
What other innovation opportunities remain in the XR space?
This Is So Elon Musk | Notes from the An Yong Editorial Team
Have you Elon Musked today?
Open-Source LLMs May Be Reaching Their "Android Moment" — How Can Startups Seize the Opportunity? | Ronghui Practical Insights
A Conversation on the Future of Open-Source AI.
After 200+ Days of AIGC Fervor, Investors Reach Three Broad Consensuses
By Elune, edited by Jiumu, curated by Eason On July 19, Meta, Facebook's parent company, released the Llama 2 large language model, making it freely available for both research and commercial use — widely hailed as the most powerful open-source alternative to GPT-4. This marks a significant shift from the previous landscape, where numerous global large language models were built on Llama but constrained by its inability to be used commercially at no cost.
Linear Capital Portfolio | Whales CEO Sheldon Ye's Chuan Talk: AGI Through Silicon Valley's Eyes, Chinese Companies' Long March
Last week, the Chuang Xue Yuan (Hundun Academy) 2023 "One" Thinking Innovation Carnival brought together "half of the AI circle." Jerry Ye, founder & CEO of Whale, was invited to speak, joining guests and attendees for a wide-ranging discussion on the application prospects of AGI.
Meta Launches Killer App Threads — Is Twitter Really About to Be Replaced? | BlueRun Ventures Commentary
Mark Zuckerberg Takes On Elon Musk
Coatue's 2023 in Detail: Half Sea Water, Half Flame
Could AI become the lifeline of the economy over the next decade?
From One-Tenth to One-Third Market Share: How Did Domestic Industrial Robots Break Through? | FreeS Fund Dialogue
The Past, Present, and Future of Domestic Industrial Robots
XTransfer Partners with Meta to Help Foreign Trade Industry Cut Costs and Boost Efficiency | Yunxun
Launch "WhatsApp for Business" to further reduce costs and improve service.
Oasis Capital in Conversation with Professor Wen Ying: Cooperation Is Harder Than Competition
Boundary Extension
3D Printing at 40: How Far From Niche Tech to Mass Adoption? | FreeS Report 31
Which industries are actually being transformed by 3D printing?
"Yunqi · Silicon Valley FutureScope" In the LLM Era, Who Is the World's Most Powerful Influencer?
Yunqi Capital Investors' Silicon Valley Trip: A Firsthand Account
AI Reflections, Part Two: The Open Cards and Hidden Cards in AI | VOICE
Consensus and Non-Consensus in AI.
Oasis Capital in Conversation with Professor Yuan Li: Preserving the Spark Before the Next Transformation
The Long-Termism of Transformation
A Debate: Two Investors With Different Perspectives on GPT | FreeS Research Institute
AlphaFold 2 vs. ChatGPT: Which Will Drive Greater Change?
AIGC "Peak Series" | Dr. Long Bo: Technical Outlook, Application Prospects, and Entrepreneurial Pitfalls of Large Language Models
A Human-Centered Perspective on the Opportunities and Challenges of ChatGPT
What is the AIGC we're discussing?
A new transformation has begun.
Put some people in the metaverse, send others to space
One is an inward journey of self-discovery; the other, an outward quest for what lies beyond.
Code Moment | VR content studio "Bifurcation Point Network" announces two consecutive funding rounds totaling tens of millions of RMB, with Source Code Capital as the sole seed-round investor
Deep cultivation of virtual reality communities --- Or if this is a heading/phrase describing a strategy: **Deep-Rooted in VR Communities** Or more naturally in a sentence context: "deeply embedded in virtual reality communities" / "taking root in VR communities" --- Without additional context, the most natural English rendering would depend on usage: - As a company positioning: **"Deeply rooted in VR communities"** - As a strategy description: *"doubling down on virtual reality communities"*
The inaugural Linear Fellow cohort is officially formed!
After two months of recruiting, interviews, and conversations, we're thrilled to announce that the inaugural Linear Fellow cohort has been finalized and is about to begin the next phase!
MaHui Founder | Shunhao Fan of Hongyu Technology: What Kind of Operating System Does the XR Era Need?
IrisView, a next-gen OS R&D platform, closes two consecutive rounds totaling nearly RMB 100 million, with Source Code Capital leading the A+ round
Focused on building a next-generation operating system for next-gen devices like AR/VR headsets.
