Meta reportedly plans to launch a standalone app for its AI assistant, Meta AI, in a bid to raised compete with AI-powered chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.
According to CNBC, Meta may launch a standalone Meta AI app as quickly as the corporate’s subsequent fiscal quarter (April-June). Meta AI is presently solely out there to customers through an internet site and Meta’s household of apps, together with Facebook and WhatsApp.
Meta additionally plans to check a paid subscription service for Meta AI that’ll add unspecified capabilities to the assistant, per CNBC. The publication wasn’t capable of be taught the worth.
Meta AI, which has over 700 million lively month-to-month customers, is part of Meta’s multi-pronged technique to turn into a dominant pressure within the AI house. The firm has additionally aggressively launched “open” fashions like Llama, which it believes may foster an ecosystem rivaling that of OpenAI’s.
Meta plans to host its first-ever AI-focused developer convention, LlamaCon, in late April.