WhatsApp has just submitted a new update through the TestFlight beta Program, bringing the version up to 24.20.10.70. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is working on a feature to create polls for status updates, and it will be available in a future update! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? Polls for status updates…
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…
Five years ago, we announced to the world that we were building AR glasses. We don’t think people should have to make the choice between a world of information at your fingertips and being present in the physical world around you. That’s why today, we’re unveiling Orion, which we believe is the most advanced pair…
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.24.20.19. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is rolling out a feature to quickly mark all chats as read, and it’s available to some beta testers! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? Mark all chats as…
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…
“We support an open innovation approach to AI. Responsible and open innovation gives us all a stake in the AI development process, bringing visibility, scrutiny and trust to these technologies. Opening today’s Llama models will let everyone benefit from this technology.” Jonathan Abrahamson, Chief Product and Digital Officer, Deutsche Telekom Wole Abu, Chief Executive Officer,…
Recent breakthroughs in AI, and generative AI in particular, have captured the public’s imagination and demonstrated what those developing these technologies have long known — they have the potential to help people do incredible things, create a new era of economic and social opportunities, and give individuals, creators, and businesses new ways to express themselves…
Climate change is too great of a challenge for any of us to solve on our own. At Meta, we know that in order to affect climate change on a global scale, collectively meet the 1.5°C target goal set by the Paris Agreement, and reach our own organization goals of achieving net zero emissions across…
Buck2, our new open source, large-scale build system, is now available on GitHub. Buck2 is an extensible and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faster and more efficient. In our internal tests at Meta, we observed that Buck2 completed builds 2x as fast as Buck1. Buck2, Meta’s open…
Digital technologies have transformed education over the last two decades. I’m only in my 50s, but when I went to school the most technologically advanced thing in class was a pocket calculator. Now, iPads and other tablets are commonplace. Museums and galleries the world over have integrated touch screens and interactive elements to their exhibits….