Meta AI app ‘designed around voice conversations’ Zuckerberg says [VIDEO]

“A billion people are using Meta AI across our apps now, so we made a new standalone Meta AI app for you to check out,” the company’s CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a video posted on Instagram.

Zuckerberg said the app “is designed to be your personal AI” and could be primarily accessed through voice conversations with the interactions personalised to the individual user.

“It’s designed around voice conversations.  You open up the app, and you can talk to it about whatever you want, from the news, to an issue you’re dealing with, to just anything you want to learn about.”

Basic beginnings

Zuckerberg said they are starting off “really basic, with just a little bit of context about your interests”.

“But over time, you’re going to be able to let Meta AI know a whole lot about you and the people you care about from across our apps, if you want.”

The tech giant’s announcement on Tuesday comes as the company rolled out its AI products in Europe last month.

WATCH: Mark Zuckerberg introducing the Meta AI app

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Competition

Meta AI is likely to take the competition to Open AI, Google’s Gemini and Elon Musk’s Grok, which also have standalone apps.

The app also has a so-called “Discover feed”, which the company said is a “place to share and explore how others are using AI”.

Availability

You can download Meta free and it connects to your Instagram and Facebook accounts and can also be used through the comapany’s Ray-Ban smartglasses.

Meta AI can be accessed at the website meta.ai. Users can log in using Meta (Facebook and Instagram) accounts. The app is also available to download from app stores.

For the moment, these voice conversations are only available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The release comes as OpenAI stands as a leader of straight-to-user AI through its ChatGPT assistant that is regularly updated with new capabilities.

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