• Wednesday • June 11, 2025

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    CNBC

    Meta launches AI ‘world model’ to advance robotics, self-driving cars

    Meta Unveiled a New AI Model Called V-JEPA 2 That It Says Can Better Understand the Physical World

    The tech giant, said its new open-source AI model V-JEPA 2 can understand, predict and plan in the physical world. Known as a world model, these systems take inspiration from the logic of the physical world to build an internal simulation of reality, allowing AI to learn, plan, and make decisions in a more human-like manner.

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  • Friday • February 14, 2025

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    New Meta Reality Labs Division To Develop AI-Driven Humanoid Robots

    New Meta Reality Labs Division To Develop AI-Driven Humanoid Robots

    After splitting Reality Labs into “Wearables” and “Metaverse” divisions this past summer, Meta is further restructuring its virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR) hardware department by establishing a new unit focused on developing artificial intelligence (AI)-powered humanoid robots designed to assist with physical household tasks, according to an internal company memo.

    In the memo, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says that the robotics product group will focus on research and development around “consumer humanoid robots” with a goal of “maximizing” the platform capabilities of Llama, the company’s family of automated open-source large language models.

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