Billions of people use Facebook and Instagram every day to share the ups and downs of life, to connect with people who share their interests, and to discover content they enjoy. To make everyone’s experience on our apps unique and personalized to them, we use AI systems to decide what content appears, informed by the…
Now in its 70th year, the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity is a unique opportunity to connect with brand leaders, discuss technologies and trends, and learn about what’s keeping the ad industry awake at night. Following several panel discussions, interviews, and meetings, here are my top three reflections from the week. Collaboration is Critical I…
Today, we are launching Our Feed Our Future, with ThinkYoung to bring together a network of young people from France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Italy to share their thoughts on what a digital future should look like. “We are very proud to take our partnership with Meta to the next level, empowering young people to…
Parental Supervision Tools on Messenger Today, we’re announcing parental supervision tools on Messenger. Now parents and guardians can access Messenger supervision tools and resources from leading experts to support their teens through the Meta Family Center. Parental Supervision on Messenger is available in the US, UK, and Canada today, with plans to expand to more…
We have agreed to a four-year programme of research led by Tyndall’s Professor Paul Hurley, recently appointed as Meta’s Industrial Chair in Semiconductor Technologies at Tyndall and the School of Chemistry at UCC. The announcement was attended by Tánaiste, and Minister for Foreign Affairs & Minister for Defence Micheál Martin at UCC this week. This…
Few things have captured the public imagination more in recent months than the significant breakthroughs we’ve seen in Artificial Intelligence, and generative AI in particular. These are the products and services that allow people to generate text, audio and visual content with simple prompts. The explosion of interest in these powerful new technologies has led…
Today, at Meta’s Performance Marketing Summit in Toronto, we brought the marketing community together to help them take advantage of our growing suite of business tools and find new opportunities to drive effective campaigns using artificial intelligence (AI). AI has been a foundational part of all our apps and services since 2006, and it currently…
Protecting the privacy of your messages remains the driving force behind what we’re building at WhatsApp. While End-to-end encryption is the foundation to ensure your calls and messages are secure, we continue to add more layers of privacy on top including the recently launched Chat Lock to protect sensitive chats behind a password, Disappearing Messages…
Today, we’re announcing a breakthrough in generative AI for speech. We’ve developed Voicebox, a state of the art AI model that can perform speech generation tasks — like editing, sampling and stylizing — that it wasn’t specifically trained to do through in-context learning. Voicebox can produce high quality audio clips and edit pre-recorded audio —…
Today we’re expanding Instagram broadcast channels globally¹, giving millions of creators a new way to directly engage with their followers at scale. We’re also highlighting a few channels that are live in India already, which you can choose to join. To help creators deepen their connections with their followers, in February we began testing broadcast…