Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech in the course of the Meta Join annual occasion, on the firm’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024.
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Meta Platforms is launching a stand-alone synthetic intelligence app and going head-to-head with ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
The brand new AI assistant providing will run on Meta’s Llama AI mannequin, the firm mentioned Tuesday. It features a Uncover feed that reveals how others are interacting with the instrument and supply prompts.
The information confirms earlier CNBC reporting from February, citing sources accustomed to the matter. Meta’s new app instantly competes with different AI platforms akin to ChatGPT because the AI arms race intensifies. Different key opponents embody Anthropic’s Claude, xAI’s Grok and Google’s Gemini.
Meta launched an AI chatbot in September 2023, pitching it as a generative AI-powered digital assistant that may present responses and create photographs primarily based on consumer prompts inside its present apps. The corporate introduced Meta AI to the forefront of its apps in April, when it changed the search function for Fb, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger with the chatbot.
Zuckerberg in January mentioned he believes 2025 “goes to be the yr when a very smart and personalised AI assistant reaches greater than 1 billion folks, and I anticipate Meta AI to be that main AI assistant.”
As of January, Meta AI had roughly 700 million month-to-month energetic customers, Meta finance chief Susan Li mentioned on the time. That was up from 600 million in December.
Meta’s debut of a stand-alone Meta AI app follows comparable efforts by Google and Elon Musk’s xAI. These two firms lately launched particular person apps for his or her respective digital assistants Gemini and Grok.
The occasion comes as Meta hosts its inaugural LlamaCon developer occasion at its Menlo Park, California, headquarters for its Llama household of AI fashions. Traders are looking out for indicators that Meta’s AI investments are having an instantaneous enterprise impression. In January, the corporate introduced plans to spend as a lot as $65 billion this yr to broaden its AI infrastructure.
Meta will report its first-quarter earnings on Wednesday.
— CNBC’s Jonathan Vanian contributed reporting.