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Re:Sundar Pichai: An important next step on our AI journey on Monday February 06, 2023 @02:29PM (#34682844)
They've been doing internal testing for while, but I guess they never thought to release it publically until chat GPT became public.

There was even someone who thought it was sentient! https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/business/google-ai-engineer-f...

Re:Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2014 Results on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @09:15PM (#8077801)
The whatsapp deal hasn't closed, so no.

I don't think the numbers include instagram either, it hasn't been monetized and therefore irrelevant to financials.

Edit: Confirmed, doesn't include instagram users. In the earnings slides http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-NJ5DZ/3349527922...

> The number of DAUs, mobile DAUs, MAUs, and mobile MAUs do not include Instagram users unless they would otherwise qualify as such users, respectively, based on their other activities on Facebook.

Re:PG at Launch [video] on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @02:39AM (#7296205)
Small correction, Warren Buffet spent over $34billion on BNSF
Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @06:07PM (#7020646)
> With centralized solutions, like Perforce, Mercurial, etc...

I think you're incorrectly putting mercurial and perforce in the same bucket. Mercurial is a lot more like Git than perforce in that it's a DVCS. Facebook made it scale by using a lot of centralized caching, but most operations (diff, looking through history, branching, etc) can be done locally.