WhatsApp has just submitted a new update through the TestFlight beta Program, bringing the version up to 24.16.10.73. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is rolling out a category feature for the channels directory, and it’s available to some beta testers! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? Channel category Status? Rolling out Compatibility? WhatsApp…
AI networks play an important role in interconnecting tens of thousands of GPUs together, forming the foundational infrastructure for training, enabling large models with hundreds of billions of parameters such as LLAMA 3.1 405B. This week at ACM SIGCOMM 2024 in Sydney, Australia, we are sharing details on the network we have built at Meta…
The Potential of Open Source AI We believe AI, more so than any other modern technology, has the potential to increase human productivity, creativity and quality of life, while accelerating economic growth and unlocking progress in education, science and innovation. Open source AI will help ensure that people everywhere have access to the benefits and…
Missed our weekly WhatsApp beta updates? Catch up now with our summary! Among our 7 stories we shared, the best news of the week is about the voice chat mode with Meta AI, a new feature in development on WhatsApp beta for iOS! Common questions Answers Story about? WhatsApp news of the week I’ve installed…
Tail utilization is a significant system issue and a major factor in overload-related failures and low compute utilization. The tail utilization optimizations at Meta have had a profound impact on model serving capacity footprint and reliability. Failure rates, which are mostly timeout errors, were reduced by two-thirds; the compute footprint delivered 35% more work for…
There were two noteworthy issues related to the treatment of political content on our platforms in the past week – one involved a picture of former President Trump after the attempted assassination, which our systems incorrectly applied a fact check label to, and the other involved Meta AI responses about the shooting. In both cases,…
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.24.16.9. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is rolling out a feature to manage multiple stickers in bulk, and it’s available to some beta testers! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? Manage stickers in bulk Status?…
The key to developer velocity across AI lies in minimizing time to first batch (TTFB) for machine learning (ML) engineers. AI Lab is a pre-production framework used internally at Meta. It allows us to continuously A/B test common ML workflows – enabling proactive improvements and automatically preventing regressions on TTFB. AI Lab prevents TTFB regressions…
Today WhatsApp has launched a privacy campaign in India, focused on the importance of secure communication, demonstrating how WhatsApp’s multiple layers of protection offer people more control and privacy over their conversations while engaging with friends, family and now businesses too. The campaign shows how WhatsApp creates a safe space for people living away from…
Missed our weekly WhatsApp beta updates? Catch up now with our summary! Among our 11 stories we shared, the best news of the week is about new Imagine editing features for Meta AI! Common questions Answers Story about? WhatsApp news of the week I’ve installed the latest update of WhatsApp for Android, iOS, and Desktop,…
What happens when a team of mechanical engineers get tired of looking at flat images of 3D models over Zoom? Meet the team behind Caddy, a new CAD app for mixed reality. They join Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the Meta Tech Podcast to talk about teaching themselves to code, disrupting the CAD software space, how…
What is the fediverse? The fediverse is a global, open network of interconnected, but still independent social media servers, each with its own users, content and rules. Servers share information with each other to enable people to connect and discover new things across the fediverse. So what does that mean? The fediverse allows you to…
WhatsApp has just submitted a new update through the TestFlight beta Program, bringing the version up to 24.13.10.71. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is rolling out a notification feature for media upload events, and it’s available to some beta testers! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? Media upload notifications Status? Rolling out Compatibility?…
We’re sharing how we streamline system reliability investigations using a new AI-assisted root cause analysis system. The system uses a combination of heuristic-based retrieval and large language model-based ranking to speed up root cause identification during investigations. Our testing has shown this new system achieves 42% accuracy in identifying root causes for investigations at their…