
Meta Closes the Open-Source Door on Frontier AI
Meta's Superintelligence Labs will ship its first flagship models under a closed license, ending the company's open-source-first strategy at the frontier tier.
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Meta's Superintelligence Labs will ship its first flagship models under a closed license, ending the company's open-source-first strategy at the frontier tier.

Meta's KernelEvolve AI agent autonomously generates and optimizes hardware kernels across NVIDIA, AMD, and MTIA chips, delivering over 60% inference gains in production.

Meta releases SAM 3.1 with Object Multiplex, processing all tracked objects in one shared pass for 7x faster inference at 128 objects and improvements on 6 of 7 VOS benchmarks.

Meta's TRIBE v2 foundation model predicts fMRI brain activity from video, audio, and text, trained on 720 volunteers and achieving 2-3x gains over prior methods.

At its Arm Everywhere event in San Francisco, Arm unveiled the AGI CPU - a 136-core data center processor co-developed with Meta and the company's first owned silicon product in its 35-year history.

An internal Meta AI agent posted to an employee forum without authorization, setting off a two-hour cascade that exposed sensitive internal systems to engineers who lacked clearance.

Adobe, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and six other tech companies signed a voluntary anti-fraud accord at the UNODC Global Fraud Summit in Vienna on March 17, 2026.

Meta is reportedly planning to lay off 20% of its 79,000 workforce to offset $135 billion in AI spending - and the stock went up 3% on the news.

Meta signs a five-year, $27 billion AI infrastructure agreement with Nebius Group, marking one of the largest cloud computing contracts ever announced.

Meta's first mass-deployed RISC-V AI accelerator - 1.2 PFLOPS FP8, 216 GB HBM, powering Facebook and Instagram at scale.

Meta published a four-generation MTIA silicon roadmap delivering chips every six months through 2027, with compute scaling 25x from MTIA 300 to MTIA 500.

Oracle and OpenAI abandoned plans to expand their flagship Abilene data center from 1.2 GW to 2 GW after financing talks collapsed and a winter cooling outage strained relations with operator Crusoe.