Meta has announced a new subsea cable initiative called Project Waterworth that aims to be the world’s longest submarine cable system at over 50,000 kilometers (31,069 miles) — longer than the earth’s 40,075 kilometer (24,902 miles) circumference. The project, the latest evidence of the company’s recent transformation, will connect five continents using 24 fiber pairs,…
AI is redefining performance standards in Big Tech
As tech giants use AI to automate traditional coding tasks, companies are simultaneously cutting lower-performing roles while competing for AI talent—creating a two-track job market where AI expertise increasingly defines career prospects. During a recent interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dished on the company’s plans for its continued push into…
Meta’s Sapiens vision models bring 3D analysis of humans to the “wild”
“Facebook’s parent Meta AI has unveiled Sapiens, a family of high-performance vision models designed to excel in ‘in-the-wild’ environments, overcoming the limitations of traditional models often confined to controlled studio settings. The family of models focuses on ‘four fundamental human-centric vision tasks,’ as the arXiv paper on the tech noted. Those include 2D pose estimation,…