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• Opening Remarks: (开场白)：

Good morning friends! Today is Thursday, April 25th

Today’s piece will be the last one on AI. I can’t emphasize this enough that AI is the biggest innovation in tech for decades. If the post global financial crisis was about the social media, the next will 15 or twenty years will be about AI. Be prepared and be wowed.

• The article (文章):

Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps - NYT

Part I: The Story:

On a call with investors last spring, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, said he believed that he had an opportunity to introduce artificially intelligent assistants “to billions of people in ways that will be useful and meaningful.”

• Omnipresent: widely or constantly encountered; common or widespread. 无所不在

Part II: The Meta Chatbot

Meta A.I. is powered by LLaMA 3, the company’s newest and most powerful large language model, an A.I. technology that can generate prose, conduct conversations and create images.

Part III: Competing with others

Other tech giants are also plugging A.I. into their products, as Silicon Valley start-ups raise billions of dollars to build A.I.-powered apps and services that they believe will define the next phase of computing.

• Amalgamate: combine or unite to form one organization or structure.合并

Part IV: Meta is a different animal

When ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, wowing people with the way it answered questions, wrote term papers and generated computer code, the tech industry raced to build similar technology — even as the tools sometimes made mistakes and generated untruths.