Facebook parent Meta Platforms launches standalone AI assistant app

Reuters

Tue, Apr 29, 2025, 9:04 AM 1 min read

(Reuters) -Facebook genitor Meta Platforms connected Tuesday launched a abstracted app for its Meta AI assistant, akin to those offered by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet's Google.

The standalone app comes arsenic Meta looks to boost the AI assistant's usage, isolated from being disposable wrong the company's household of platforms - WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.

It besides signals CEO Mark Zuckerberg's determination to fortify the company's presumption successful the competitory AI landscape, taking connected large rivals specified arsenic OpenAI and Google.

Meta's abstracted app volition supply much personalized responses based connected discourse and different user-specific elements related to the user's Facebook and Instagram accounts.

Llama 4, Meta's latest ample connection model, powers the Meta AI adjunct and is designed to rival the latest AI models from OpenAI, Google, Deepseek and Anthropic, with improved reasoning, multilingual capabilities and efficiency.

The caller app volition integrate with Meta's AI glasses and merge with the existing companion app, the institution said.

Meta is hosting its first-ever AI developer event, dubbed LlamaCon, connected Tuesday, which volition halfway astir its Llama household of AI models.

The Instagram proprietor is acceptable to study its first-quarter results connected Wednesday aft markets close.

Meta volition commencement investigating a paid subscription for the AI chatbot's precocious versions successful the 2nd quarter, Reuters had reported successful February.

However, the subscription work mightiness not rake successful meaningful gross until adjacent twelvemonth astatine the earliest, a root had said.

Meta AI, which was launched successful September 2023, is simply a virtual adjunct that uses ample connection models to execute reasoning tasks.

(Reporting by Akash Sriram successful Bengaluru; Editing by Shreya Biswas)