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Our Open Source Approach Open source AI has the potential to unlock unprecedented technological progress. It levels the playing field, giving people access to powerful and often expensive technology for free, which enables competition and innovation that produce tools that benefit individuals, society and the economy. Open sourcing AI is not optional; it is essential for cementing America’s position as a leader in technological innovation, economic growth and national security.…

We’re starting to roll out AI Studio in the US as a place for people to create, share and discover AIs. Built with Llama 3.1, AI Studio lets anyone create and discover AI characters and allows creators to build an AI as an extension of themselves to reach more fans. Create an AI Character Based on Your Interests With AI Studio, anyone can create AI characters at ai.meta.com/ai-studio or in…

Segmentation – identifying which image pixels belong to an object – helps with tasks like analyzing scientific imagery or editing photos. Our original Segment Anything Model released last year inspired new AI-enabled image editing tools in our apps, such as Backdrop and Cutouts on Instagram. SAM has also catalyzed diverse applications in science, medicine and numerous other industries. For example, SAM has been used in marine science to segment sonar…

We launched Threads with the belief that everyone has something valuable to say. It’s been a year now, and we’re seeing it become a place where people feel comfortable sharing their thoughts and ideas. In fact, India is one of the most active countries for Threads globally. To celebrate this moment, we’re sharing new updates and insights, as well as some highlights from this journey.  One Year For Threads: New…

Our vision for Facebook is simple: Facebook is for social discovery that opens your world in big and small ways. We’ve always been social, and we’ve always helped people discover things, but the way that people want to do this is changing, so we’re evolving our product accordingly. As we think about the next 20 years, we’re focused on two big things: building the next generation of social media for…

As a company that’s been at the cutting edge of AI development for more than a decade, it’s been hugely encouraging to witness the explosion of creativity from people using our new generative AI tools, like our Meta AI image generator which helps people create pictures with simple text prompts. As the difference between human and synthetic content gets blurred, people want to know where the boundary lies. People are…

2023 was a busy year for privacy, and it’s become even more critical to build scalable privacy practices. With that in mind, we’ve invested $5.5 billion in our privacy program since 2019, and have grown the teams focused on privacy to more than 3,000 people. In honor of Data Privacy Day, we’re looking at some areas that have benefited from this investment. Click to view slideshow. Sharing Our Privacy Progress…

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 powers our discovery engine, ads business, content moderation and more. The advancements we have made…

We’re expanding our test of Meta Verified to India after seeing good results from our early testing in several countries globally. We’ll also continue honouring verified badges that were granted previously based on existing criteria.  To help up-and-coming creators grow their presence more quickly on our apps, in February we announced that we’ll begin testing a new offering called Meta Verified. It is a subscription bundle on Instagram and Facebook…

French translation (Lire la version française) As we have shared, content from news outlets, including news publishers and broadcasters, will not be available to people accessing Facebook and Instagram in Canada if Bill C-18, the Online News Act, is passed into law. As we prepare to comply with the legislation, we are announcing today that we will begin tests on both platforms that will limit some users and publishers from…

In support of The National Brain Appeal‘s Rare Space Garden at The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show 2023, we have partnered with The National Brain Appeal to launch an augmented reality garden (AR) experience that helps people with rare dementias. ‘The Rare Space Garden Experience’, which was developed by immersive reality agency Arcade using Meta Spark, uses technology that helps people living with cognitive conditions to create their…