Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang announced the company will switch internal communications from Google Chat to Slack.
Meta is migrating its internal communications from platform to platform, moving from Google Chat to Slack. Alexandr Wang, the company's AI chief, issued a memo stating that Slack is the strongest platform currently available for AI agents.
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Wang cited Slack's conversational interface, developer tooling, and extensive third-party integrations as the primary reasons for the switch. While Meta chose Slack for its agent ecosystem, several European governments have spent the last two years moving toward sovereign suites. For example, France has set a deadline to replace Teams and Zoom for 2.5 million civil servants by 2027. Germany's Schleswig-Holstein region moved 44,000 mailboxes off proprietary software last year. These sovereign suites were chosen for server control rather than agent ecosystems. The move to Slack represents a significant win for Salesforce, which purchased Slack for $27.7 billion in 2021. Both Meta and Salesforce declined to comment on the transition.