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Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone tin download and tally connected their ain hardware — a opposition to Muse Spark, the company’s much almighty exemplary that stays locked down its ain APIs. The merchandise landed alongside a missive from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should beryllium “for everyone” alternatively than controlled by a fistful of labs, but arsenic Equity’s hosts constituent out, the imaginativeness comes with some asterisks.
On this occurrence of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Rebecca Bellan take a look at Glimmer, Zuckerberg’s 6,500-word manifesto, and much of the week’s headlines, from the true outgo of the AI industry’s vigor needs to a $250M acquisition gone precise wrong.
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