Today marks the launch of Meta’s second annual Responsible Business Practices Report, offering a detailed look at our progress in addressing social and environmental priorities, as well as our efforts to create sustainable value for our customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders. We organize our responsible business approach around key pillars that enable us to…
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.24.20.13. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is working on a feature to create filters from the chats list, and it will be available in a future update! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? Create chat…
Today, we’re introducing Instagram Teen Accounts, a new experience for teens, guided by parents. Teen Accounts have built-in protections which limit who can contact them and the content they see, and also provide new ways for teens to explore their interests. We’ll automatically place teens into Teen Accounts, and teens under 16 will need a…
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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…
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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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…
We will begin training for AI at Meta using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram in the UK over the coming months. This means that our generative AI models will reflect British culture, history, and idiom, and that UK companies and institutions will be able to utilise the latest technology. We’re building…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
As required by the Digital Markets Act (DMA) people using WhatsApp and Messenger in Europe have the option to connect with people using third-party messaging services that have chosen to make their apps interoperable. We call this third-party chats. When the DMA came into force earlier this year, we provided some technical detail on how…