When Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company was going to be renamed Meta, he hit the table. The message was clear: the metaverse was going to be so important to the future of the company that it made no sense to continue to call it “Facebook” like the social network.
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A year and a half later, things are not so clear. The Meta itself has recognized that the Metaverse is, for now, a bottomless pit that only swallows money without giving any benefit, and the patience of everyone involved is starting to wear thin. exhaust. Rumors speak of canceled projects and meanwhile many are wondering how the company is losing so much money when it still owns the most popular social network on the planet.
The return of Facebook
It looks like Zuckerberg has noticed this too, as in the past few weeks we’ve seen an interesting twist at Meta, as if it wants to return to the golden age of Facebook. To prove it, it announced a surprising move this week, which will bring back a feature that was removed nine years ago: integration with Messenger.
Messenger will be integrated into the Facebook application
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In a post on its official blog, Meta revealed that Messenger would return to the Facebook app, integrating its messaging features. Thus, we will no longer need to open the Messenger application to check if a message has been sent to us, and we will be able to connect directly with our contacts from the Facebook application.
For the moment, Meta is testing this functionality, with a view to a future update of the application which will make it possible to use Messenger. The change represents a 180 degree turn in company policy and comes after nine years of users requesting that the Messenger app not be required to be installed.
The publication also includes a very curious message: the company warns that “Facebook is not dead or dying”, and announces that the social network already has no less than 2,000 million active users. And that’s true, but it’s not something the company has bragged about so far.
Facebook’s AI
Everything indicates that Facebook will regain at least some of the importance it once had for Zuckerberg, and the proof is in a post from the CEO himself, in which he announces the creation of a new internal group dedicated to the ‘Generative Artificial Intelligence; that is, it develops alternatives to ChatGPT, DAll-E, Midjourney and other projects capable of generating content based on user commands.
Meta’s AI will be integrated into Facebook, WhatsApp and other apps
In fact, Meta has been investing in this technology for some time now, and this week LLaMA, its own ChatGPT-style AI, was leaked. The great advantage of its language model is that it is smaller and therefore more efficient, without the need for such powerful hardware. A copy ended up being shared on P2P networks, and there are already fans who have managed to run it on a regular computer.
When this AI is integrated into Facebook, it could bring a host of new features to the social network and give us an additional reason to continue to maintain our account.
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