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The
Meta AI app, built with the company’s Llama 4 AI system. It
includes a “discover” feed that lets users see how others are
interacting with AI. It also has a voice mode for interacting
with the AI.
“It’s smart for Meta to differentiate its ChatGPT competitor by
drawing from the company’s social media roots. The app’s
Discover feed is like a version of the OG Facebook Feed but only
focused on AI use cases," said Forrester research director Mike
Proulx.
By letting users link their Facebook and Instagram accounts, the
Meta AI app “gets a leg up on instantly personalizing its user
experience with social media context.”
Meta has taken a different approach to AI than many of its
rivals, releasing it for free as an open-source product. The
company says more than a billion people use its AI products each
month.
At the Menlo Park, California-based tech giant's inaugural
conference, LlamaCon, on Tuesday Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
chatted with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a technical
discussion around the speed of AI development and how the
technology is shifting both their companies — where AI is
already writing code — as well as the world.
Acknowledging there is a lot of "hype” around AI, Zuckerberg
said “if this is going to lead to massive increases in
productivity, that needs to be reflected in major increases in
GDP.”
“This is going take some multiple years, many years, to play
out,” Zuckerberg said. “I’m curious how you think, what’s your
current outlook on what we should be looking for to understand
the progress that this is making?”
Nadella brought up the advent of electricity, saying that “AI
has the promise, but you now have to sort of really have it
deliver the real change in productivity — and that requires
software and also management change, right? Because in some
sense, people have to work with it differently.”
He said it took 50 years before people figured out to change how
factories operated with electricity.
Zuckerberg replied “well we’re all investing as if it’s not
going to take 50 years, so I hope it doesn’t take 50 years.”
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