If you’re iterating on deploying large language models (LLMs) on AWS GPU instances, you’ve probably noticed the larger the model to be loaded into GPU High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), the longer the painful wait until the GPUs are ready for inference. As models grow to hundreds of billions of parameters and GPU environments grow ever […]

AWS Machine Learning·5d ago·Aws Amazon Hardware Speed

May 30

Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.

TechCrunch AI·5/30/2026·Meta-llama Hardware

[AINews] Founders and Forward Deployed Engineers

a quiet day lets us highlight the new AIE WF focuses

Latent Space·5/30/2026·Deepseek Hugging Face Open Source Benchmarks

May 28

Training Azerbaijani language models on Amazon SageMaker AI

Azercell Telecom LLC, Azerbaijan's leading telecommunications provider, wanted to build an Azerbaijani large language model (LLM) on Amazon SageMaker AI for telecom use cases and a customer-facing chatbot. The challenge: adapting foundation models (FMs) to a morphologically rich language with limited training data and no existing blueprint for efficient LLM training in Azerbaijani. In a six-week collaboration, Azercell worked with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to establish a production-ready framework on Amazon SageMaker AI.

AWS Machine Learning·5/28/2026·Aws Amazon Open Source Benchmarks

May 27

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans

Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.

TechCrunch AI·5/27/2026·Meta-llama

May 26

SilverTorch: Index as Model — A New Retrieval Paradigm for Recommendation Systems

We’re introducing SilverTorch, a reimagining of recommendation systems that unifies all retrieval components for user generated content under a unified architecture. SilverTorch shows up to 23.7x higher throughput compared to the state-of-the-art approaches. It’s also showing 20.9x more compute cost efficiency compared to a CPU-based solution while also improving accuracy. Our research paper, “SilverTorch: A [...] Read More... The post SilverTorch: Index as Model — A New Retrieval Paradigm for Recommendation Systems appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

Meta AI·5/26/2026·Meta-llama Benchmarks Release

May 11

Import AI 456: RSI and economic growth; radical optionality for AI regulation; and a neural computer

What laws does superintelligence demand?

Import AI·5/11/2026·Meta-llama Regulation

May 1

Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

TechCrunch AI·5/1/2026·Meta-llama Funding

Apr 30

AWS Generative AI Model Agility Solution: A comprehensive guide to migrating LLMs for generative AI production

In this post, we introduce a systematic framework for LLM migration or upgrade in generative AI production, encompassing essential tools, methodologies, and best practices. The framework facilitates transitions between different LLMs by providing robust protocols for prompt conversion and optimization.

AWS Machine Learning·4/30/2026·Anthropic Aws Open Source Benchmarks

Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million conversations a week

Meta said over 8 billion advertisers have used at least one of its gen AI tools

TechCrunch AI·4/30/2026·Meta-llama

Apr 22

Get to your first working agent in minutes: Announcing new features in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Today, we're introducing new capabilities that further streamline the agent building experience, removing the infrastructure barriers that slow teams down at every stage of agent development from the first prototype through production deployment.

AWS Machine Learning·4/22/2026·Aws Amazon Coding MCP

Apr 21

World models

AI systems have already gained impressive mastery over the digital world, but the physical world is still humanity’s domain. As it turns out, building an AI system that can compose a novel or code an app is far easier than developing one that can fold laundry or navigate a city street. To get there, many…

MIT Technology Review AI·4/21/2026·Google Meta-llama Open Source Benchmarks

Resistance

Turns out not everyone wants to live in the future that AI companies are building. People from all walks of life are speaking out against rising electricity bills from data centers, disappearing jobs, chatbots’ impact on teen mental health, the military’s use of AI, and copyright infringement—among other concerns. This anti-AI movement is taking shape…

MIT Technology Review AI·4/21/2026·Google Meta-llama Open Source Hardware

China’s open-source bet

Silicon Valley AI companies follow a familiar playbook: Keep the secret sauce behind an API, and charge for every drop. China’s leading AI labs are playing a different game: They ship models as downloadable “open-weight” packages. This lets developers adapt the models and run them on their own hardware to build products without negotiating a…

MIT Technology Review AI·4/21/2026·Z-ai Hugging Face Open Source Benchmarks

Modernizing the Facebook Groups Search to Unlock the Power of Community Knowledge

We’ve fundamentally transformed Facebook Groups Search to help people more reliably discover, sort through, and validate community content that’s most relevant to them. We’ve adopted a new hybrid retrieval architecture and implemented automated model-based evaluation to address the major friction points people experience when searching community content. Under this new framework, we’ve made tangible improvements [...] Read More... The post Modernizing the Facebook Groups Search to Unlock the Power of Community Knowledge appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

Meta AI·4/21/2026·Meta-llama Benchmarks

The New Unicorn Count Reached A 4-Year High In March, Led By Robotics, Frontier Labs And AI Infrastructure

A total of 37 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, Crunchbase data shows. The robotics sector led unicorn creation last month, with six new billion-dollar startups.