CompTIA has released its State of the Tech Workforce 2025, which shows tech employment metrics at the nation, state, and metropolitan level. It found that despite economic uncertainty, the tech workforce in the US grew 1.2% in 2024, reaching 5.9 million. This sector of the workforce is projected to grow to 6.1 million in 2025. … continue reading
Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and AI companies are constantly releasing new models and features. It can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve written this roundup to share several notable updates around AI that software developers should know about. Google announces … continue reading
Meta has announced the latest release of its open source AI model, Llama. According to Meta, with the release of Llama 3.1 405B, the company is trying to prove that open models can be just as capable as their closed counterparts, if not better. “Llama 3.1 405B is the first openly available model that rivals … continue reading
Meta has revealed the next generation of Llama, which is an open-source large language model (LLM) family developed by the company. The Llama 3 models are considered by Meta to be “the best open source models of their class, period,” the company claimed in a blog post. It has released the first two models in … continue reading
Meta’s AI team has announced the release of a new project called Purple Llama that will include tools and evaluations to assist in responsibly building AI models. The components within Purple Llama will be released with a permissive license to enable collaboration by the community and to help standardize the development of trust and safety tools. … continue reading
IBM and Meta have come together — along with 50 other organizations — to form the AI Alliance, “a group of leading organizations across industry, startup, academia, research and government coming together to support open innovation and open science in AI.” By bringing together a diverse set of types of organizations, the AI Alliance hopes … continue reading
Meta is joining other fellow tech giants in creating its own AI-assisted coding tool. The tool, Code Llama, generates code based on text prompts. It can also help with other development tasks, like code completion and debugging. Meta believes that Code Llama will make development workflows faster and lower the bar to entry for new … continue reading
Meta is trying to bridge the communication gap between languages that exists in our multilingual world. They have launched SeamlessM4T, which is a foundational multilingual and multitask model that can translate between languages across speech and text. “The world we live in has never been more interconnected—the global proliferation of the internet, mobile devices, social … continue reading
Seven leading companies in the AI field on Friday voluntarily committed to help move toward the safe, secure, and transparent development of AI technology. The companies include Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. “Companies that are developing these emerging technologies have a responsibility to ensure their products are safe. To make the most … continue reading
Animated Drawings is an open-source project from the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team at Mela AI. The goal of this project is to help creators and developers create their own drawing-to-animation experiences or products. At its inception in 2021, FAIR applied recent advancements in computer vision towards an intuitive pipeline in order to animate any … continue reading
Buck2 is Meta’s open-source large scale build system and it is now publicly available through both the Buck2 website and on GitHub. This open-source offering is a from-scratch rewrite of Buck, though it does share some commonalities with it and other build systems such as Bazel. Buck2 completely separates the core and language-specific rules. This … continue reading
Today, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced that two inquiries into the data processing operations of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Meta Ireland) revolving around the delivery of its Facebook and Instagram services, have been concluded. Meta Ireland was fined €210 million due to breaches of the GDPR having to do with the company’s Facebook … continue reading
