Facebook owner Meta announced Tuesday that it is shutting down its business-focused Workplace app to focus on artificial intelligence and the Metaverse.
The company said it believes the AI and Metaverse technologies it is developing will “fundamentally change the way we work” as it scales back its Workplace product, an online collaboration tool for corporate customers.
Existing customers will be able to use Workplace until August 31, 2025, after which they will have the option to migrate to Zoom's Workvivo product, which Meta calls “the only recommended migration partner.” The company says customers will be able to view their Workplace data for about a year after the app stops functioning.
Introduced in 2016, Workplace not only enables file sharing between colleagues, but also provides a hub for company policies, documents, and more. In 2021, the number of paid members of this app reached his 7 million.
The move to discontinue the app comes as Meta invests billions of dollars in developing its Metaverse and AI capabilities while cutting thousands of jobs in other departments.company Announcing a new chatbot that utilizes AI April showed both great abilities and strange tendencies.
For example, when a meta-AI agent was unleashed on social media, it attempted to gift non-existent items to members of a Facebook “buy nothing” group.
—From a report by the Associated Press
