Meta launches AI app, Zuckerberg chats with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at developer conference

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Working to differentiate itself successful the crowded tract of artificial intelligence, Meta Platforms has launched a standalone AI app — with a societal media constituent — to vie with OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The Meta AI app, built with the company’s Llama 4 AI system. It includes a “discover” provender that lets users spot however others are interacting with AI. It besides has a dependable mode for interacting with the AI.

“It’s astute for Meta to differentiate its ChatGPT rival by drafting from the company’s societal media roots. The app’s Discover provender is similar a mentation of the OG Facebook Feed but lone focused connected AI usage cases," said Forrester probe manager Mike Proulx.

By letting users nexus their Facebook and Instagram accounts, the Meta AI app “gets a limb up connected instantly personalizing its idiosyncratic acquisition with societal media context.”

Meta has taken a antithetic attack to AI than galore of its rivals, releasing it for escaped arsenic an open-source product. The institution says much than a cardinal radical usage its AI products each month.

At the Menlo Park, California-based tech giant's inaugural conference, LlamaCon, connected Tuesday Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg chatted with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella successful a method treatment astir the velocity of AI improvement and however the exertion is shifting some their companies — wherever AI is already penning codification — arsenic good arsenic the world.

Acknowledging determination is simply a batch of "hype” astir AI, Zuckerberg said “if this is going to pb to monolithic increases successful productivity, that needs to beryllium reflected successful large increases successful GDP.”

“This is going instrumentality immoderate aggregate years, galore years, to play out,” Zuckerberg said. “I’m funny however you think, what’s your existent outlook connected what we should beryllium looking for to recognize the advancement that this is making?”

Nadella brought up the advent of electricity, saying that “AI has the promise, but you present person to benignant of truly person it present the existent alteration successful productivity — and that requires bundle and besides absorption change, right? Because successful immoderate sense, radical person to enactment with it differently.”

He said it took 50 years earlier radical figured retired to alteration however factories operated with electricity.

Zuckerberg replied “well we’re each investing arsenic if it’s not going to instrumentality 50 years, truthful I anticipation it doesn’t instrumentality 50 years.”