Kalley Huang

Developing huge story from @KalleyHuang and @coryweinberg - Meta is in talks to hire SSI cofounder Daniel Gross and ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

scoop: Meta asked Microsoft, Amazon and others to help pay to train Llama, called the "Llama Consortium." But some companies balked at helping Meta train an open-source model—spending money on something they would eventually get for free w @KalleyHuang 🤝 theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

Mark Zuckerberg in 2018 proposed spinning off Instagram, as he worried about regulators eventually breaking up the company and Instagram "hollowing out" Facebook, according to newly disclosed emails shown in court on day two of FTC v. Meta. theinformation.com/articles/zucke…

a day after Google celebrated its gold medal achievement in the International Math Olympiad, three of the researchers who worked on that team are already leaving for Meta scoop via @KalleyHuang and me theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

This what's called going out with a bang. Meta AI researcher scorches the earth on his way out of the company.

Meta has overhauled its efforts in AI but still has its work cut out—both technically and culturally. In an internal essay, an AI researcher departing Meta diagnosed its challenges in AI, describing "a culture of fear" akin to "a metastatic cancer." theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

Scoop: TikTok and Instagram are working on versions of their apps customized to run on TV screens following YouTube's success in the living room w/ @KalleyHuang theinformation.com/articles/tikto…

Scoop updated from @KalleyHuang and @coryweinberg on Meta's talks to hire Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman for AI efforts. Talks include a potential $1b+ buyout of their venture fund NFDG theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

first thing I've read that makes meta scale deal make sense by @KalleyHuang @coryweinberg theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

Scoop on Meta/Scale deal deets: - Meta investing >$14B in Scale, owning 49% of the startup. - Alex Wang and other top Scale people going to Meta. - Scale shareholders get paid Questions: - What's Scale's future look like? - Was this Zuck's top choice? theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

Google cut 10% of its privacy sandbox team, the first time the 250+ team that was supposed to usher the web into private advertising, had layoffs. And Meta is working on facial recognition in its glasses, which previously the company had seen as too risky

Meta is once again considering facial recognition for its smart glasses, after excluding it from earlier glasses over ethical concerns. It's part of a sea change in how Big Tech thinks about privacy. With @catherineperlo1: theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

the AI capex strain is real: fact that Meta, one of the most profitable firms in the world, asked other companies to help it fund Llama AI model development should tell you something.

Meta over the past year asked Microsoft, Amazon and others to help pay the costs of training Llama. The overtures came as Meta worried about the growing costs of its model development. With @erinkwoo: theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

Instagram is working on a dedicated iPad app w/ @KalleyHuang : theinformation.com/articles/insta…

In this morning's AI Agenda, @KalleyHuang and I get into Meta's rocky Llama 4 debut and what went wrong: theinformation.com/articles/llama…

Meta could release Llama 4 later this month, after pushing back the release at least twice. A reason for the delay: During its development, Llama 4 didn't perform as well as desired on technical benchmarks, particularly for reasoning, math and speech. theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

Meta is battening down the hatches ahead of next month's antitrust trial, which could break up the company. CMO Alex Schultz is temporarily moving to D.C. Instagram head Adam Mosseri has apologized for his tight schedule. With @SylviaVarnham: theinformation.com/articles/meta-…