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Re:Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal ... by treis on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:08AM (#49921918)
I think that's shaky but also that's OpenAI and not Meta. Up until whenever Muse was launched Meta didn't have anything I'd call a LLM product.
Re:Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal ... by simonw on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:20AM (#49922061)
They've had AI-powered chat and search features in WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook itself for a few years now.

2023-09: "Meta AI is a new assistant you can interact with like a person, available on WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram" - https://about.fb.com/news/2023/09/introducing-ai-powered-ass...

2024-04: "You can use Meta AI in feed, chats, search and more across our apps" - https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/meta-ai-assistant-built-wi...

2024-09: "You can now use your voice to talk to Meta AI on Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram DM, and it’ll respond back to you out loud" - https://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/metas-ai-product-news-conn...

Re:Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal ... by treis on Thursday October 01, 2026 @12:37PM (#49923947)
Meh those sound mostly like pilots and AFAIK most of this stuff didn't last long.

I agree that at some point it stopped being a pilot and started being a product. So not that interested in arguing exactly when that happened.

Re:Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal ... by zeezer0 on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:17AM (#49922030)
You don't consider Llama an LLM?
Re:Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal ... by treis on Thursday October 01, 2026 @12:30PM (#49923854)
It wasn't a product