Meta launches AI application, Zuckerberg chats with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at a developer meeting
The Meta platform has launched 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.
“It's wise for Meta to draw from CHATGPT competitors from the company's social media roots. The Discover feed of the app is like the version of the OG Facebook feed, but is targeted only for 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 of its 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, Llamacon on Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg chatted with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella 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 would lead to a massive increase in productivity, it would need to be reflected in a significant increase in GDP.” “It would take years to play out,” Zuckerberg said.
“I’m curious about your idea, you’re currently looking for what we should look for to understand what progress is going on here?” Nadella, who proposed the advent of electricity, said: “AI has hope, but you have to really have real changes in productivity 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.”
