Meta launches AI model that can evaluate other AI models’ work, Spirit LM that freely mixes text and speech

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, on Friday, said that it was releasing a series of new AI models from its research division – Fundamental AI Research (FAIR). These models include a ‘Self-Taught Evaluator’ that could likely offer the possibility of less human involvement in the entire AI development process, and another model that freely mixes text and speech.

The latest announcements come after Meta’s paper in August that detailed how these models would rely on the ‘chain of thought’ mechanism, something which has been used by OpenAI for its recent o1 models that think before they respond.