On Thursday, Meta announced the release of Meta Motivo, an artificial intelligence model that may be used to regulate the actions of a digital agent that resembles a human and could improve the Metaverse experience.
TakeAway Points:
- Meta said it was releasing an artificial intelligence model called Meta Motivo, which could control the movements of a human-like digital agent with the potential to enhance Metaverse experience.
- According to the company, Meta Motivo addresses body control problems commonly seen in digital avatars, enabling them to perform movements in a more realistic, human-like manner.
- Meanwhile, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, Instagram, which is owned by Meta, announced that its services are back online after thousands of users encountered technical difficulties on Wednesday.
AI model for Metaverse experience
The company has been plowing tens of billions of dollars into its investments in AI, augmented reality, and other Metaverse technologies, driving up its capital expense forecast for 2024 to a record high of between $37 billion and $40 billion.
Meta has also been releasing many of its AI models for free use by developers, believing that an open approach could benefit its business by fostering the creation of better tools for its services.
“We believe this research could pave the way for fully embodied agents in the Metaverse, leading to more lifelike NPCs, democratization of character animation, and new types of immersive experiences,” the company said in a statement.
Meta Motivo addresses body control problems commonly seen in digital avatars, enabling them to perform movements in a more realistic, human-like manner, the company said.
Meta said it was also introducing a different training model for language modeling called the Large Concept Model (LCM), which aims to “decouple reasoning from language representation.”
“The LCM is a significant departure from a typical LLM. Rather than predicting the next token, the LCM is trained to predict the next concept or high-level idea, represented by a full sentence in a multimodal and multilingual embedding space,” the company said.
Other AI tools released by Meta include the Video Seal, which embeds a hidden watermark into videos, making it invisible to the naked eye but traceable.
Meta’s Instagram says services back up after outages
Meta-owned Instagram said its services were back online after thousands of users experienced technical issues accessing its platform on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
At the peak of the outage, which started around 12:50 p.m. ET., more than 100,000 incidents were reported with Facebook and nearly 70,000 with Instagram.
The number of reports has come down to over 1,000 for both apps as of 6 p.m. ET.
Downdetector’s numbers are based on user-submitted reports. The actual number of affected users may vary.
Some Facebook and Instagram users posted on X that they were encountering an error that said “something went wrong” and that Meta was working to get it fixed.
Earlier this year, a technical issue led to an outage that impacted hundreds of thousands of Facebook and Instagram users globally for more than two.
The platforms faced another outage in October, when services were largely restored within an hour.
