📰 Meta Launches AI App with a Social Twist to Rival ChatGPT
The new assistant offers personal answers based on your social media activity and lets you share your AI chats with friends.
Meta META 0.00%↑ has launched a new standalone AI app that aims to compete directly with ChatGPT and other popular AI tools. The app was announced during the company’s LlamaCon event and is now available for users in the United States and Canada. Unlike many AI assistants, this one is designed to feel more personal and more social.
What makes Meta’s AI different is that it can use information you have already shared on platforms like Facebook and Instagram. This allows the assistant to give answers that are more tailored to you. For example, if you tell Meta AI that you are lactose intolerant, it can remember that for the future and avoid recommending things like cheese tastings during travel suggestions.
A more personal experience
According to Meta, the assistant is designed to feel natural and helpful. You can talk to it using regular language, either by typing or speaking. It can answer questions, help you write content, and even generate or edit images.
You can also choose from different voices for the assistant, including a few that sound like famous people such as John Cena or Dame Judi Dench. And if you want, you can tell the AI to remember details about your life, which helps it give better responses in the future.
This level of personalization does raise questions about privacy. Meta makes most of its money from targeted ads, which rely on user data. The company says you are in control of what you share with the AI, but it is important for users to stay aware of how their information is being used.
Sharing how you use AI
One unique feature of the app is something called the Discover feed. This is a space where you can see how other people are using Meta AI and also share your own AI interactions if you want to. For example, someone might ask the AI to describe them in three emojis and post the result for their friends to see.
This mix of AI and social media could make using the app more fun and engaging. Meta hopes it will encourage people to be creative and discover new ways to use the technology.
Smart glasses and web version
The new AI app also connects with Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses. You can control your glasses through the app, manage your settings, and continue AI conversations that start on your glasses. The app will replace the older Meta View app for Ray-Ban users. A web version of Meta AI is also coming soon. It will include the same voice tools and the Discover feed, so you can use the assistant on both mobile and desktop.
Source: Meta website
Meta joins the AI race
With this new app, Meta is trying to stand out in a growing market. While OpenAI is working on fixing problems with ChatGPT’s tone and Google is building AI tools for language learning, Meta is adding a social element that others do not yet offer.
This is just the first version of the app, and Meta says they are looking forward to hearing user feedback. It is clear that AI tools are becoming more common and more connected to our daily lives. Meta wants its assistant to feel less like a robot and more like a helpful, familiar voice that understands you.
Source: Meta website, TechCrunch, ZDNET
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