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Meta rolls out upgraded AI assistant across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp

Meta Platforms on Thursday launched a new upgraded version of its artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI, across its apps.

The tool is available on social media giants’ platforms such as Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and is powered by Llama 3, the latest generation of Meta’s large-scale language models.

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Meta has upgraded its artificial intelligence assistant across all of the social media giant’s apps. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters Photo)

Meta’s AI assistant is the company’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, which was released in November 2022 and became hugely popular. Meta currently promotes its unique AI assistant as the best free tool available.

“In short, we believe Meta AI is the most intelligent AI assistant at our disposal today,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a video announcing the rollout on Thursday.

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Zuckerberg said Meta has integrated real-time knowledge from Google and Bing into the Assistant’s answers and made the tool easier to access across its apps by embedding the tool in search boxes on the platform. said.

Mark Zuckerberg, executive chairman of Meta Platforms, gestures to the Facebook Messenger logo.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says Meta’s AI assistant is the most powerful tool currently available for free to users. (Reuters/Stephen Lamb/Reuters Photo)

AI assistants can also create images and animations more quickly and update them as users type.

The company has also built a new website, Meta AI, to allow users to use the tool separately from the app.

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The announcement comes as Meta looks to challenge OpenAI’s leading position in the technology, including overhauling its computing infrastructure and merging previously separate research and product teams to produce AI products. It comes amid a rush to push the app to billions of users.

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Meta is offering models like Llama 3 for free commercial use by developers as part of a catch-up effort, as the success of a strong free option could thwart rivals’ plans to monetize proprietary technology. has been released. The strategy has also raised safety concerns from critics who are wary of what unscrupulous developers might build using open source models.

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This update expands the Meta AI Assistant to more than 10 markets outside the US, including Australia, Canada, Singapore, Nigeria, and Pakistan.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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