Meta launches AI application, Zuckerberg chats with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at a developer meeting
Menlo Park, California (AP) – Meta Platforms, differentiates among the crowded areas of artificial intelligence, launches a standalone AI application (with social media components) to compete with Openai's Chatgpt.
Meta AI application built using the company's Llama 4 AI system. It includes a “discovery” feed that allows users to see how others interact with the AI. It also has a voice mode that interacts with AI.
“Meta can draw differently from ChatGpt's competitors by drawing from the company's social media roots. The app's Discover feed is like the version of the OG Facebook feed, but is targeted only at AI use cases,” said Mike Proulx, research director at Forrester.
By letting users link their Facebook and Instagram accounts, the Meta AI app “can instantly personalize their user experience in a social media environment.”
Meta takes a different approach to AI than many competitors and releases it for free as an open source product. The company says more than a billion people use their AI products every month.
At the first inaugural meeting of Menlo Park, California-based, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg chatted with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday about the speed of AI development and how the technology can transfer its company (AI already writes code) and the world and the world’s technology discussion.
Zuckerberg acknowledged that there was a lot of “big hype” around AI, saying: “If this will lead to a huge increase in productivity, it needs to be reflected in a significant increase in GDP.”
“It takes years to work,” Zuckerberg said. “I'm curious about your idea, what are you currently looking for about what we should be looking for to understand what progress is going on?”
Nadella proposed the emergence of electricity, saying: “AI has hope, but you have to really have real changes in productivity right now – it requires changes in software and management, right?
It took 50 years to know how to change the way factories operate with electricity, he said.
Zuckerberg replied: “Well, we're all investing, it doesn't seem like it takes 50 years, so I hope it doesn't take 50 years.”
