Meta has finally launched its ChatGPT competitor

Within the thick of Meta’s first-ever AI developer convention, LlamaCon, CEO Mark Zuckerberg hit the launch button on Meta AI — the corporate’s full-throttle reply to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

In accordance with Meta’s April 29 press release, the brand new standalone AI app is constructed on the corporate’s newest Llama 4 mannequin. It’s pitched as a hyper-personalized assistant for customers already dwelling contained in the Meta ecosystem: WhatsApp, Instagram, Fb — the drill. In a alternative Instagram video, Zuckerberg, framed in a pair of Meta Ray-Ban glasses, pitched the app as a product constructed for voice-first conversations.

One standout function is the Uncover feed. It helps you to see how your connections use Meta AI, surfacing prompts they’ve tried (with their permission). Meta says you’re in full management over what, if something, will get shared. Since personalization is on the coronary heart of the expertise, it’s price noting: opting out of having your data scraped to train Meta’s AI is nearly impossible.

The uncover feed will even amplify any generative AI traits that pop off.
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The app can be meant to pair with Meta’s Ray-Ban good glasses. You possibly can kick off a dialog through voice via the glasses, then soar into the app or net interface later to select up the thread. Apart from that, although, the app features the identical because it does on Messenger and IG, simply now wrapped in a separate, slick interface accessible from each your telephone and desktop.

With LlamaCon underway in California, this standalone launch isn’t only a product drop — it’s a litmus take a look at. Meta wants to indicate traders and builders that its AI ambitions are alive and accelerating. Again in January, Zuckerberg dedicated a staggering $60 billion to U.S.-based data centers to energy Meta AI.

The launch may be the nudge OpenAI must hit the gasoline by itself social-facing ChatGPT app. CEO Sam Altman joked about the idea months in the past, when Meta first teased its standalone AI app. Now, indicators level to OpenAI quietly building something that might make that joke a reality.