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Meta is eager to push its curiosity and funds into AI and blended actuality
Meta Platforms will discontinue its work-targeted Workplace app as the corporate shifts its focus on constructing synthetic intelligence and metaverse applied sciences.
(Reuters) – Meta Platforms will discontinue its work-targeted Workplace app as the corporate shifts its focus on constructing synthetic intelligence and metaverse applied sciences, the Facebook dad or mum mentioned on Tuesday.
Workplace can be shuttered beginning June 2026 for purchasers however Meta will proceed to use it as its inner messaging board, the corporate mentioned, including customers can proceed to entry the product till August 2025.
“We are discontinuing Workplace (to) focus on building AI and metaverse technologies that we believe will fundamentally reshape the way we work. Over the next two years, we will provide our Workplace customers the option to transition to Zoom’s Workvivo product, Meta’s only preferred migration partner,” a Meta spokesperson mentioned.
The enterprise communications app, Workplace, was first launched for companies in 2016 with new options together with multi-firm teams and shared areas that allowed workers from totally different organizations to work collectively.
The transfer comes because the social media big has been investing closely in AI merchandise and metaverse – a shared digital setting that it bets would be the successor to the cell web – stoking considerations of surging prices that might hit progress.
The firm mentioned the billing and fee preparations will stay the identical for Workplace clients till August this yr.
Workplace at present affords a month-to-month core plan of $4 per consumer, which could be upgraded with add-ons ranging from $2 per consumer every month. Unless a corporation has a set plan, its month-to-month invoice is calculated by the variety of billable customers.
