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Meta

🌎 meta.com

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. Originally launched as Facebook in 2004, the company has evolved to include apps like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and is now focusing on immersive experiences such as augmented and virtual reality. Meta aims to create a safe online space that fosters community and constructive conversations.

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Meta - Latest News and Updates

• Meta launched an audio transcription feature for WhatsApp, as announced by Guilherme Horn, Head of WhatsApp for Strategic Markets.
• Meta partnered with ENGIE on a 260 MW renewable energy project to support its net zero goals.
• Saikat Sen has joined Meta as AI/ML Leadership in the United States, previously serving as Founder & CEO at Stealth AI Startup.
• The European Commission fined Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg 798 million euros for violating competition rules with its advertising service.
• Meta's Llama, an autoregressive language model, is being used in a new method to enhance text classification by integrating it with autoencoder models.

• Mark Zuckerberg has integrated Meta's Llama AI model into all products, including the Orion augmented reality glasses, to challenge OpenAI's dominance.
• Meta launched the Meta for Education Beta Program, collaborating with over a dozen US and UK colleges to test their education platform on Meta Quest headsets, and introduced digital 'metaversities' in Europe.
• Meta's AI Research Scientist Maya Bechler-Speicher announced that their paper 'Cayley Graph Propagation' was accepted to Learning on Graphs 2024.
• Meta's software engineer Qi Xu announced that their paper on ad load optimization using reinforcement learning has been accepted by KDD 2025 in Toronto.
• Meta is expanding its Wearables art team in Burlingame, NYC, and Seattle by hiring Art Managers and a Creative Director, as announced by Joshua To, VP of Product Design, AR, AI & Wearables.

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