Inside Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta

This episode of the Meta Tech Podcast is all about Bento, Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Bento allows our engineers to mix code, text, and multimedia in a single document and serves a wide range of use cases at Meta from prototyping to complex machine learning workflows. Pascal Hartig…

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Preventing Suicide and Self-Harm Content Spreading Online

Suicide and self-harm are complex mental health issues that can have devastating consequences. At Meta, we’ve worked with experts for years – including our suicide and self-harm advisory group and members of Meta’s own safety teams – to develop an informed and thoughtful approach to suicide and self harm content shared on our apps. Yet,…

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Aparna Ramani discusses the future of AI infrastructure

Delivering new AI technologies at scale also means rethinking every layer of our infrastructure – from silicon and software systems and even our data center designs. For the second year in a row, Meta’s engineering and infrastructure teams returned for the AI Infra @ Scale conference, where they discussed the challenges of scaling up an…

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WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.19.32: what's new?

WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.24.19.32. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is working on a feature to choose the Meta AI voice modeled after public figures, and it will be available in a future update! Common questions Answers Name of the…

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Simulator-based reinforcement learning for data center cooling optimization

We’re sharing more about the role that reinforcement learning plays in helping us optimize our data centers’ environmental controls. Our reinforcement learning-based approach has helped us reduce energy consumption and water usage across various weather conditions in our data centers.   Meta is revamping its new data center design to optimize for artificial intelligence and the…

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WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.19.22: what's new?

WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.24.19.22. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is working on a clearer interface for the communities tab, and it will be available in a future update! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? New communities tab interface…

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Inside the hardware and co-design of MTIA

In this talk from AI Infra @ Scale 2024, Joel Colburn, a software engineer at Meta, technical lead Junqiang Lan, and software engineer Jack Montgomery discuss the second generation of MTIA, Meta’s in-house training and inference accelerator. They cover the co-design process behind building the second generation of Meta’s first-ever custom silicon for AI workloads,…

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WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.19.16: what's new?

WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.24.19.16. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is rolling out a Meta AI assistant feature for businesses, and it’s available to some beta testers! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? Meta AI for businesses Status? Rolling…

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Navigating Your 20s With Facebook

Your twenties are a decade full of transitions, from graduating college, moving to new cities, starting new jobs and living on your own for the first time. It can be a hectic (and fun) decade, and Facebook is here to help. You can find new communities through Facebook Groups, furnish your new home with Marketplace…

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