The new AI assistant, Meta AI, will be available to a limited number of U.S.-based consumers beginning on September 27.
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta, has unveiled his company’s new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant, Meta AI, which will integrate with Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and, eventually, the company’s mixed reality devices.
At the Meta Connect event on September 27, Zuckerberg explained that Meta AI is fueled by the company’s large language model, Llama 2, and was developed in collaboration with Microsoft Bing to provide users with access to real-time internet information.
“Meta AI is your basic assistant that you can talk to like a person.”
In addition to answering queries and conversing with users, the newly introduced bot can generate images using a new tool called Emu that was trained on 1.1 billion pieces of data, including photos and captions shared by Facebook and Instagram users.
Zuckerberg stated that instead of creating a one-size-fits-all chatbot, Meta’s overarching strategy was to develop various AI products for different use cases, which was Meta AI’s primary point of differentiation from competitor ChatGPT.
As an illustration, he demonstrated how Meta AI would differ in each company’s social media application. He demonstrated how it could be added to group chats on Facebook Messenger to assist with travel planning.
Zuckerberg stated that Meta’s chatbots are not merely designed to provide helpful information. They are also intended to be engaging and conversational.
Meta announced a collection of chatbots based on approximately 30 personalities, including Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg, and former NFL quarterback Tom Brady, as part of its display of AI products geared toward entertainment.
According to Meta, the new AI assistant will launch on September 27 for a limited number of Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp users in the United States.
Meta AI will also be accessible to users of the company’s new smart spectacles, which are scheduled for release in the United States on October 17, as well as its new Quest 3 VR device. OpenAI announced on the same day as Meta’s Connect event that ChatGPT will no longer be limited to data before 2021.
The updates are promptly available for Plus and Enterprise users utilizing the GPT-4 model, according to a post on X dated September 27.
Before this update, ChatGPT’s knowledge base had an ever-widening void. Due to the nature of how artificial intelligence (AI) models such as generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) are trained, ChatGPT’s knowledge base concluded in 2021; presumably the year it was finalized for production.