Meta’s standalone ChatGPT competitor is mostly what you’d expect from an AI assistant. You can type or talk with it, generate images, and get real-time web results.
The biggest new idea in the Meta AI app is its Discover feed, which adds an AI twist to social media. Here, you’ll see a feed of interactions with Meta AI that other people, including your friends on Instagram and Facebook, have opted to share on a prompt-by-prompt basis.
You can like, comment on, share, or remix these shared AI posts into your own. The idea is to demystify AI and show “people what they can do with it,” Meta’s VP of product, Connor Hayes, tells me.
It may seem obvious that Meta is the first to add a social component to its AI assistant. It definitely won’t be the last, though. Across the industry, AI chatbots and social media are converging. Elon Musk’s X has already integrated closely with Grok. OpenAI, meanwhile, is planning to add a social feed to ChatGPT.
The Meta AI app puts voice mode at the forefront. An opt-in, beta version makes Meta AI’s voice more conversational like ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode, though Meta’s version currently lacks access to information from the web.
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