Earlier this year, a small team of engineers at Meta started working on an idea for a new app. It would have all the features people expect from a text-based conversations app, but with one very key, distinctive goal – being an app that would allow people to share their content across multiple platforms. We…
Opening remarks by Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at AI Insight Forum, hosted by Senators Schumer, Rounds, Heinrich, and Young on September 13, 2023. As prepared for delivery Thanks, Senator Schumer, for pulling this group together. A lot of the progress in AI recently is being driven by the organizations in this room. It’s…
If you missed our stories this week about the latest updates to WhatsApp beta for Android, iOS, and Desktop, this is a good time to catch up thanks to our summary. Among the 8 stories we shared, the best news of the week is about channels, a new broadcast private tool available on WhatsApp for…
We’re introducing Arcadia, Meta’s unified system that simulates the compute, memory, and network performance of AI training clusters. Extracting maximum performance from an AI cluster and increasing overall efficiency warrants a multi-input system that accounts for various hardware and software parameters across compute, storage, and network collectively. Arcadia gives Meta’s researchers and engineers valuable insights…
Today we’re excited to launch WhatsApp Channels to over 150 countries and deliver a private way to receive updates that matter to you. We’re welcoming thousands of organizations, sports teams, artists, and thought leaders that people can follow, right within WhatsApp. If you’re new to Channels, our goal is to build the most private broadcast…
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.19.12.What’s new in this update? This is a bug fix update that addresses a crash when replying to status updates! Common questions Answers Changelog about? Reply to status updates Status? Fixed Compatibility? WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.19.12…
Meta’s Native Assurance team regularly performs manual code reviews as part of our ongoing commitment to improve the security posture of Meta’s products. In 2021, we discovered a vulnerability in the Meta Quest 2’s Android-based OS that never made it to production but helped us find new ways to improve the security of Meta Quest…
Digital technologies have transformed so many areas of education in recent decades. From pocket calculators to laptops, tablets, and the video conferencing tools that helped learning shift online during the pandemic, technology plays a crucial role in how people teach and learn. Metaverse technologies like Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) promise to create…
WhatsApp has just submitted a new stable update for iOS, available on the App Store: the build number is 23.17.81.What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is widely rolling out a feature to create a new group chat while forwarding messages! FORWARD TO A NEW GROUP In the article about the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.16.3…
Meta presents Chakra execution traces, an open graph-based representation of AI/ML workload execution, laying the foundation for benchmarking and network performance optimization. Chakra execution traces represent key operations, such as compute, memory, and communication, data and control dependencies, timing, and resource constraints. In collaboration with MLCommons, we are seeking industry-wide adoption for benchmarking. Meta open…
Imagine if doctors could practice surgery in a realistic, risk-free way – with virtual reality (VR) that’s already possible and happening today. Training for surgery is just one of the many industries being transformed in ways that are positively impacting lives. Today, we’re sharing some examples of how people and businesses around the world are…
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.19.6.What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is rolling out a general group chat for communities, and it’s available to some beta testers! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? General group – communities Status? Rolling out Compatibility?…
Ever wonder what it’s like to write code at Meta’s scale? On the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Dustin Shahidehpour and Katherine Zak, two software engineers at Meta, to talk about their careers and what it’s really like to ship code at Meta. Why does Meta have…
Today, we are announcing that in the UK, France and Germany we will deprecate Facebook News – a dedicated tab on Facebook in the bookmarks section that spotlights news – in early December. This is part of an ongoing effort to better align our investments to our products and services people value the most. As…