By cryptoadmin 
Meta didn't look forward 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 data out of your profile and posts you’ve shared.
The Meta AI app gives comparable options to rival chatbots, together with textual content and voice chats, stay 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 factor 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 non-public chats will publish 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 shared with Meta merchandise. This consists of data like your social profile and content material you want or interact with. The corporate says linking your Fb and Instagram accounts to the identical Meta AI account will present "an excellent stronger personalised expertise." Should you don't need that, this could be a superb time to test your privateness settings.
The app has a stay dialog mode for customers within the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Very similar to an identical characteristic in ChatGPT and Gemini, Meta’s model helps you to and the AI assistant pay attention and communicate concurrently, with a pure stream that ought to really feel extra like an actual dialog. Nevertheless, Meta solely describes it as a demo that gives "a glimpse into the longer term," suggesting it's nonetheless in an early stage. This mode additionally doesn't provide stay internet entry.
The Meta AI internet model consists of the app's new options, together with voice interactions and the Uncover feed. This model has just a few variations, together with enhanced picture era (extra presets and new enhancing modes for model, temper, lighting and colours). The online model additionally helps 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’ll 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 Gadgets tab.
You’ll be able to obtain the brand new Meta AI app from the App Retailer and Google Play.
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