Fb Inc. introduced Thursday that it has modified its firm title to Meta — marking the primary main rebrand for the social media large.

The title change, which displays the corporate’s rising ambitions past social media, was unveiled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the Fb Join convention. An accompanying information launch laid out the corporate’s imaginative and prescient for creating a “metaverse” that connects on-line social experiences and the bodily world.

Fb Join is an annual convention that brings collectively digital actuality builders, content material creators and entrepreneurs. This 12 months’s occasion is closely centered on the metaverse idea, which has proliferated because of blockchain know-how.

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