Category: Technology

What’s going on with generative AI (GenAI) at Meta? And what does the future have in store? In this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) speaks with Devi Parikh, an AI research director at Meta. They cover a wide range of topics, including the history and future of GenAI and the most… Continue reading How Meta is advancing GenAI

Written by Viraj Jasani and Andrew Purtell Data is the engine behind Salesforce operations, helping our customers make better decisions on a daily basis. The Big Data Storage (BDS) team, a key part of Salesforce’s engineering organization, deploys arguably one of the largest distributed database production footprints. This infrastructure is based on the combination of… Continue reading Implementing Salesforce’s Largest Database Upgrade: Inside the Migration to HBase 2

On July 5, 2023, Meta launched Threads, the newest product in our family of apps, to an unprecedented success that saw it garner over 100 million sign ups in its first five days. A small, nimble team of engineers built Threads over the course of only five months of technical work. While the app’s production… Continue reading How Meta built the infrastructure for Threads

HawkEye is the powerful toolkit used internally at Meta for monitoring, observability, and debuggability of the end-to-end machine learning (ML) workflow that powers ML-based products. HawkEye supports recommendation and ranking models across several products at Meta. Over the past two years, it has facilitated order of magnitude improvements in the time spent debugging production issues.… Continue reading AI debugging at Meta with HawkEye

Salesforce is guided by its core values of trust, customer success, innovation, equality, and sustainability. These values are reflected in its commitment to responsibly develop and deploy new technologies like generative AI on behalf of stakeholders — from shareholders to customers to the planet. The Large Language Models (LLMs) that power generative AI require enormous… Continue reading Unveiling Salesforce’s Blueprint for Sustainable AI: Where Responsibility Meets Innovation

By Shafiq Rayhan Joty and Scott Nyberg In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional journeys that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Shafiq Rayhan Joty, a Director at Salesforce AI Research. Shafiq co-leads the development of XGen, a series of groundbreaking large language models (LLMs) of different sizes. Delivering critical general knowledge,… Continue reading Developing the New XGen: Salesforce’s Foundational Large Language Models