OpenAI, which started the AI race, now has a new competitor. Meta, which owns the most widely used social media apps has officially launched it’s Meta AI with a much-needed update. Meta AI has now been built on an updated open-source Llama 3 Large Language Model.
The social media giant says it is “now the most intelligent AI assistant you can use for free”. Now, it can help students prepare for tests, plan dinners, schedule nightouts, etc. You can do all tasks with it that you can do on any AI assistant. It is directly competing with ChatGPT except that it is built by Meta.
A fun fact is that Meta AI is on every social media app that Meta owns. After briefly testing it with Instagram Direct messages, it is now on the company’s entire portfolio. You can now have AI assistant on Facebook feeds, & search, WhatsApp search, Instagram and Facebook Messenger. It also has a dedicated website(Meta.ai) just like ChatGPT which users can use and it also doesn’t require you to log in.
You can ask queries and do tasks on it’s website without even registering on the website with your login credentials. However, you can just ask questions from the AI assistant without logging in but one downside is that it won’t be able to generate images. To generate images, you have to log in to the websites with your Facebook login details. The company has also integrated it’s AI assistant with it’s newly launched Ray Ban smart glasses, on the other hand concerning Quest, support for the Quest headset is coming soon.
For image generation, the company says that it is much faster and can generate images as you type. Users can also generate custom animated GIFs with it for fun and share the GIFs with others on social media apps.
After testing it’s AI assistant, Meta has finally rolled out a stable version of it’s AI assistant that users can use. It is also available in dozens of countries outside the United States of America. These countries include Australia, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Pakistan, Uganda and others. Users in other countries need to keep one thing in mind however, it is currently available in the English language only. Meta did not mention the availability of other languages but we expect that Meta would soon bring support for other languages as well.
For safety and reliability, the company says that Llama 3 is now trained on expanded data sets compared to Llama 2. The company used synthetic data sets to create lengthy documents to train its AI assistant and claimed that it excluded all data sources that had a “high volume of personal information about private individuals”.
The AI assistant has been the pet project of the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Initially, Meta AI did not attract the user’s attention due to limited features as compared to other AI assistants. However, this new update has the potential to attract a lot of users due to all the features that are currently present on other AI assistants.
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