WhatsApp is teaming up with National Trading Standards to raise awareness of digital scams, and the ways people can stay safe and secure, also launching two new creator partnerships. This is an extension of a campaign first launched in 2021. New data from Citizens Advice show that in 2024 alone it has received at least one report of a phone scam every day, whilst a report from National Trading Standards found that one in five adults (20%) believe they are likely to become a victim of a scam in the next five years, highlighting the ongoing need for increased public awareness to fight back agai ..read more

We’re expanding access to Meta AI – the assistant in our apps and devices – and introducing new features to help you with answers, ideas and inspiration. Meta AI is now available in 22 countries, with the newest today in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Cameroon. You can also interact with Meta AI across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Facebook in new languages: French, German, Hindi, Hindi-Romanized Script, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish with more to come. With Meta AI across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Facebook and meta.ai, people are tapping into the power of ..read more

In the early days of high-performance computing, the major tech companies of the day each invested heavily in developing their own closed source versions of Unix. It was hard to imagine at the time that any other approach could develop such advanced software. Eventually though, open source Linux gained popularity – initially because it allowed developers to modify its code however they wanted and was more affordable, and over time because it became more advanced, more secure, and had a broader ecosystem supporting more capabilities than any closed Unix. Today, Linux is the industry standard f ..read more

We believe the best products are built by working with the communities we serve. We recently invited people with disabilities and accessibility advocates to co-design solutions with our product teams to enhance the accessibility of mixed reality technology.   These co-design efforts help us deliver universal value for our users by: Prioritizing real-life user experiences: Co-designing products with diverse communities helps us ground our design in real-life user experiences, test design assumptions and prioritize solving for user needs.  Centering the needs of historically underser ..read more

Bollywood actor Ananya Panday has now joined the Threads app to share more about her life, opinions, movies, and her passion for nurturing a safer online community. She shared her forever-favorite movies including ‘Luck By Chance’ and ‘K3G’, the music that’s making her move right now, which is ‘Tauba Tauba’ from ‘Bad Newz’, and her continued commitment for nurturing a safer online community. With over 24 million followers, Ananya Panday is one of the most followed GenZ actors from Bollywood on Instagram. She is set to appear in several exciting projects, including the highly anticipated ‘Call ..read more

AI could prove to be one of the most game-changing technologies propelling growth for India’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). To empower MSMEs to further leverage the strength of AI, we launched a white paper with the National Association of Software and Service Companies (nasscom), an Indian non-governmental apex trade association and advocacy group for the Indian technology industry. The findings show both the opportunities and the challenges faced by tech-enabled* MSMEs in adoption of AI in their business operations. “As the backbone of the Indian economy, empowering MSMEs wi ..read more

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 communicate across different servers – imagine posting on Threads and having people see your post on Tumblr or Flipboard.  A helpful analogy is e-mail. If you use Yahoo and your friend uses Gmail, you’re able to send emails to each other because both provi ..read more

Meta has been working with Hugging Face, an open source community-driven platform that hosts machine learning models and tools, and Scaleway, a European cloud leader for AI infrastructure, on an “AI Startup Program” to accelerate the adoption of open-source AI solutions in Europe. Applications for the program are now open to startups from across the EU member states, with the aim of bringing the economic and technological benefits of open models to the broader ecosystem.  The AI Startup Program is based at STATION F in Paris, allowing European startups to benefit from the resources avail ..read more

Built with Meta Llama 3, Meta AI is one of the world’s leading AI assistants, already on your phone, in your pocket for free across more than a dozen countries. And it’s starting to roll out in India in English. You can use Meta AI on WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram to get things done, learn, create and connect with the things that matter to you. We first announced Meta AI at last year’s Connect, and since April, we’ve been bringing the latest version of Meta AI built with Llama 3 to people around the world. Thanks to Meta Llama 3, Meta AI is smarter, faster and more fun than eve ..read more

For more than a decade, Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team has focused on advancing the state of the art in AI through open research. As the field rapidly innovates, we believe that collaboration with the global AI community is more important than ever.  Today, we’re excited to share some of the most recent FAIR research models with the global community. We’re publicly releasing five models including image-to-text and text-to-music generation models, a multi-token prediction model and a technique for detecting AI-generated speech. By publicly sharing this research, we hope to ins ..read more