Meta AI Updates: July 2, 2026

1. Shopify Joins the PyTorch Foundation as a Platinum Member

PyTorch. The PyTorch Foundation announced that Shopify has joined as a Platinum member, which grants it a seat on the Governing Board and representation on the Technical Advisory Council. Shopify already runs PyTorch across its AI infrastructure, powering the Sidekick merchant assistant, product search and recommendations, fraud protection, and foundation models. The company plans to contribute engineering expertise upstream and share lessons from running machine learning at commerce scale to support agentic AI workloads. Source

2. Meta FAIR’s Non-Invasive Brain-to-Text Model Narrows the Gap to Implants

Meta FAIR. Researchers published Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive system that reconstructs full sentences from magnetoencephalography recordings taken outside the skull, without surgery. Across nine volunteers the model cut the average word error rate to 39 percent from the prior version’s 55 percent, with the best participant reaching 22 percent and 28 percent of sentences decoded perfectly, using a fine-tuned Qwen3 language model to clean noisy signals. Surgical implants still achieve under 2 percent error, but the asynchronous, implant-free approach points toward safer real-time assistive communication for people with speech or mobility impairments. Source