$META ACQUIRES SWEDISH AI STARTUP STILLA
Meta is buying Stilla AI to accelerate Meta Business Agent, its AI system for helping merchants handle customer conversations and transactions across WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram.
Stilla built an agent that can retain company context and take actions across workplace software, with integrations spanning thousands of tools.
The acquisition plugs that technology into a business product Meta says is already used by more than 1M businesses, with over 1B active business conversations taking place across its messaging apps each day.
Stilla was founded in Stockholm in 2024 and raised $5M in pre-seed funding earlier this year. Meta also plans to expand its presence in Sweden following the deal.
Introducing Z1T:
Our first family of transformer-like models
made for sparse probabilistic hardware like Z1
Achieving up to 140x energy efficiency gains over GPUs
and revealing a new scaling law for sparse transformers
Read the blog:
https://t.co/zYLkLjrJLL
So llms are arent actually intelligent and this is massive bubble (atleast this is the vibe I get from your account)
and all that but it's also extremely dangerous and "we don't know how it works"
I'm actually genuinely curious what the actual take is I don't understand
Nonobvious reason why the world is in deep, deep trouble.
We are clearly at the point where we need to "science the shit out of" alignment.
And we don't know the first thing about how a new model like Astra works, nor, for example, how much of its putative improvements in alignment are due to bechmarkmaxxing, or improvements in test taking, as opposed bona fide, robust advances. Nor *why* it has improved, nor whether we can expect the same of the next model.
We badly need independent testing and analysis, and more knowledge of what's under the hood.
And we probably won't get it.
Incredibly dangerous.
We are several years into a Cold War, whether you realize it or not.
Decels, destroyers of civilizations, have been weaponized by enemies of the West.
We must fight them tooth and nail.
Our freedom is worth fighting for.
This is a psychological war.
Do your part anon.
To quote @beffjezos
Get fucked and get lost!
Progress is inevitable, and this will lead to just better more abundant society's.
trying to stop this will at best leave us a few months behind and at worst leave us on the same place we are now while our adversary grow in strength power
And most importantly abundance.
Contrary to what u commies believe the pie growing is actually has a more positive impact on the lower end of the spectrum then the opposite
$LULU -14% 🩸 after a major guidance cut.
Q2 revenue came in slightly below estimates at $2.4B, with comps down 9%.
The real damage was the outlook: FY26 revenue/EPS guidance missed badly, while Q3 EPS guidance of $0.93-$0.98 came in vs. $2.40 expected.