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Researchers at Meta, University of British Columbia, and partner institutions have developed hyperagents—AI systems that optimize both their task performance and the mechanisms controlling their self-improvement. Unlike previous self-improvement approaches locked to coding tasks, DGM-Hyperagents (DGM-H) demonstrate significant gains across four domains and can transfer improvement strategies to entirely new tasks.

Facebook Marketplace is rolling out Meta AI features that automatically draft replies to buyer inquiries and generate item listings from photos. Sellers can also now offer shipping on listings and view buyer profile summaries with activity history.

A Meta FAIR and New York University research team trained a multimodal AI model from scratch and identified that several widely-held assumptions about multimodal model architecture and training don't align with their empirical findings. The work addresses growing concerns about text data exhaustion in LLM training.

Meta is testing a shopping research feature within its Meta AI chatbot designed to compete with similar e-commerce tools from OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. The feature represents Meta's effort to expand AI chatbot capabilities beyond conversation into commerce-focused use cases.