Metaintroduces independent AI application, challenging the dominance of ChatGPT.
The Lowdown on Meta's New AI Assistant App
Step aside, ChatGPT! Meta, the social media titan, unveiled its long-awaited standalone AI assistant app on Tuesday, eager to step into the generative AI scene. In a video posted on Instagram, none other than Mark Zuckerberg, the company's CEO, praised the app as a "personal AI" and a direct path to Meta's AI models.
Zuckerberg envisioned the app as a voice-driven helper, personalized to each user's preferences based on their interests, interactions, and data from across Meta's apps. While starting off with basic features, Meta plans to allow users to share more personal information over time.
For the tech-head in you, the app is powered by Meta's project Llama, an open-source AI model. But don't be fooled by the technical jargon - in simple terms, it means conversing with the app will feel like talking to a friend.
To make things fun, Meta added a social feed, where users can see AI-made posts from others, learn from one another, and even share their prompts and created art. The app also replaces Meta View as the companion app for Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, making conversations seamless across devices.
Embracing its social media DNA, the app offers an experimental mode for human-style conversations with users, complete with interruptions, laughter, and dialogue akin to a phone call. However, it should be noted that the feature currently cannot search the web, so forget about asking about the latest sports teams or the Papal conclave.
With OpenAI leading the straight-to-user AI market through ChatGPT, Meta touted its app's advantages by emphasizing Llama's open-source nature and its potential to provide a more customized user experience by leveraging the best of different AI models.
In essence, Meta's AI assistant app brings together AI assistance and social behaviors while using its established user profiles for personalization in a unique way. Unlike ChatGPT, it focuses on contextual understanding based on users' existing social footprints. Both offer real-time web access and multimodal capabilities, but Meta integrates these within a social media paradigm.
- Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's CEO, described the new AI assistant app as a "personal AI," positioning it as a direct path to Meta's AI models.
- The app, powered by Meta's project Llama, an open-source AI model, promises to feel like conversing with a friend.
- To make the app more engaging, Meta added a social feed, where users can share AI-made posts, learn from one another, and even share their prompts and created art.
- In contrast to ChatGPT, Meta's AI assistant app focuses on contextual understanding based on users' existing social footprints.
- The app also integrates real-time web access and multimodal capabilities within a social media paradigm, setting it apart in the generative AI scene.
