Meta did not look ahead to Tuesday’s LlamaCon keynote to unveil its first huge AI announcement of the week. The corporate launched a standalone app that competes with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and different multimodal AI chatbots. Sticking to the corporate’s roots, the app additionally features a social feed and the power to attract on information out of your profile and posts you’ve shared.
The Meta AI app provides comparable options to rival chatbots, together with textual content and voice chats, reside internet entry and the power to generate and edit photos. Nevertheless it additionally features a Uncover feed that (for higher or worse) provides a social ingredient to your AI queries. The corporate describes it as “a spot to share and discover how others are utilizing AI.” It highlights the prompts that others share and allows you to “remix them to make them your individual.”
Meta stresses that none of your personal chats will put up to others’ feeds until you explicitly select to share them.
For customers within the US and Canada, Meta AI can personalize its solutions primarily based on information you’ve got shared with Meta merchandise. This consists of information like your social profile and content material you want or have interaction with. The corporate says linking your Fb and Instagram accounts to the identical Meta AI account will present “an excellent stronger personalised expertise.” If you do not need that, this may be a great time to examine your privateness settings.
The app has a reside dialog mode for customers within the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Very similar to the same characteristic in ChatGPT and Gemini, Meta’s model enables you to and the AI assistant pay attention and converse concurrently, with a pure movement that ought to really feel extra like an actual dialog. Nonetheless, Meta solely describes it as a demo that gives “a glimpse into the long run,” suggesting it is nonetheless in an early stage. This mode additionally does not supply reside internet entry.
The Meta AI web version consists of the app’s new options, together with voice interactions and the Uncover feed. This model has a couple of variations, together with enhanced picture era (extra presets and new modifying modes for type, temper, lighting and colours). The net model additionally enables you to check a wealthy doc editor (in some nations) that may spit out text- and image-rich docs to export as PDFs.
The app has merged with the Meta View companion app for the corporate’s Ray-Ban glasses collab. The corporate says it’s going to embrace a handoff characteristic that allows you to begin a dialog on the glasses after which entry it in your historical past tab on the app or internet. After putting in the replace, you may handle your glasses within the Meta AI app’s Units tab.
You possibly can obtain the brand new Meta AI app from the App Store and Google Play.
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