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.
In response 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 accessible to customers by way of an internet site and Meta’s household of apps, together with Fb 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 value.
Meta AI, which has over 700 million energetic month-to-month customers, is part of Meta’s multi-pronged technique to develop into a dominant power within the AI house. The corporate 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.
