Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model. This would mark a major philosophical shift for Meta.

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Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices. A Meta spokesperson has confirmed the acquisition, according to Bloomberg, which also reports that an internal memo stated that the “entire PlayAI team” will be joining the company next week. (TechCrunch has also reached out to Meta for confirmation.)

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But research in this area is still in its early stages. A study published this spring showed that Llama can reproduce much more of its training text than was previously thought, including near-exact copies of books such as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 1984.