Meta Launches New AI App

[MacRumors]

Facebook parent company Meta today announced the launch of Meta AI, its first standalone AI app. Meta AI has already been integrated into Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook, but now it is also available in a dedicated app.

The Meta AI app is built with Llama 4, and Meta says the app is its first step toward building a more personal AI that's designed around voice conversations. After downloading the Meta AI app, Meta AI will ask you personal questions so that it can get to know you, which Meta claims will provide "more helpful" answers. Meta AI is "easy to talk to," and has been created to be "natural to interact with."

The Meta AI voice features can be used in the background while multitasking, so you can use other apps while continuing to speak to the AI. Voice conversations will feel personal, relevant, and conversational in tone. The voice conversation feature is available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand as of now.

The app integrates image generation and editing too, both of which can be done through a voice or text conversation with the AI assistant. Llama 4 is able to search the web for finding product recommendations and delving into topics for research, with Meta providing "conversation starters" to inspire searches.

Meta says that it is using its decades of work on personalizing experiences on social media to make Meta AI more personal. It is able to remember facts about you, and it can pick up details based on context. It is also able to draw on information you've already shared on Meta platforms, like your profile and content that you like to engage with to provide more personalized responses.

The new Meta AI app can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

Article Link: Meta Launches New AI App

 

[iPhoneFan5349]

Let’s face it guys, Apple is not driving the tech anymore. If we want cutting edge technology we have to look somewhere else.

 

[redheeler]

The open-source Llama LLMs are pretty incredible, but I think I can do without another datasucker on my phone.

 

[jz0309]

Meta says the app is its first step toward building a more personal AI that's designed around voice conversations. After downloading the Meta AI app, Meta AI will ask you personal questions so that it can get to know you, which Meta claims will provide "more helpful" answers

Meta says that it is using its decades of work on personalizing experiences on social media to make Meta AI more personal. It is able to remember facts about you, and it can pick up details based on context. It is also able to draw on information you've already shared on Meta platforms, like your profile and content that you like to engage with to provide more personalized responses

Great! Meta has you covered!
I mean, whoever wants to use this - go for it.
Scary times ...

 

[GMShadow]

Let’s face it guys, Apple is not driving the tech anymore. If we want cutting edge technology we have to look somewhere else.

Behold, cutting edge technology.

 

[Doomtomb]

Please give us more of your data.

 

[HarryPot]

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Behold, cutting edge technology.

Those chats seems to be hiding the real prompts that caused that answer.
I use ChatGPT for personal and business use, and it has proven to be very reliable and a huge time saver for many things.

Comparing what I was able to get out from it one year ago to now, it has improved a lot. I can only imagine it will get much much better.

 

[citysnaps]

Great! Meta has you covered!
I mean, whoever wants to use this - go for it.
Scary times ...

Spot-on analysis. That's why I'm in no hurry waiting for Apple's privacy-focused AI. They'll do it right. Again... it's not something that will be complete when it's released. But will be evolving over time.

 

[citysnaps]

Let’s face it guys, Apple is not driving the tech anymore. If we want cutting edge technology we have to look somewhere else.

Go for it! Go somewhere else and find happiness. Will you do it?

I have no problem waiting for Apple's implementation.

 

[iJulio]

Who’s honestly using all of this? I see the commercials for Meta AI and I cringe.

 

[Reason077]

A dedicated app for Meta AI? Great! So this means they'll relocate, or let us hide, the obnoxious floating Meta AI button in WhatsApp now, right?

Right?

 

[TracerAnalog]

Let’s face it guys, Apple is not driving the tech anymore. If we want cutting edge technology we have to look somewhere else.

Let's face it guys, Apple is the only one even remotely interested in your privacy. Meta just wants to drain your brain...

Let the flame wars begin 😅

 

[gknewell]

You couldn’t pay me to use this trash.

 

[alphaswift]

When you connect to the Meta AI, it suggests other AIs you may know.

 

[picpicmac]

Let’s face it guys, Apple is not driving the tech anymore. If we want cutting edge technology we have to look somewhere else.

Oh please...

Some people just try too hard.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Keep that thing far away from me please and thank you.

 

[applefan8254]

To me, facebook seems like an anticompetitive monopoly, as the only kind of general purpose real world connection network, who should have never been able to buy out their competition.

a hypothetical facebook competitor could start off similar to facebook but it could use some much needed features.

1. the ability to completely *turn off* any reverberations would be nice. Currently, if you change something on your profile or add some sort of photo or update or anything, there will be dozens or hundreds of little reverberations through the network where people are notified of everything you do, and like, there should just be an option to just completely disable that.


2. I think a "virtual delete" friend option should be available. When you just want to kinda "virtually delete" a friend but it would be something that you could undo, unlike delete which is permanent. Virtual deletion would not notify the friend and so to them it would just appear as if nothing really changed from a user interface perspective. That's just one example of many ideas that I think facebook or a competitor to Facebook should have


3. It's good they finally added the ability to do profiles, but for many, who created separate Facebook accounts before profiles were a thing, it's kind of too late. So I would hope that a competitor would have multiple profiles from the get-go.

Another thing I just thought of would be the ability to, when adding new friends, to not have them show up first on your profile. From what I can tell/remember, if I want to send a friend request to someone, first of all, its going to do that annoying reverberation thing where everyone that that person is friends with will get like notified, which is one thing that we should have the option to disable. Then, the other thing might be that like, i think as it stands, if they accept, then we would show up first on their profile, when in reality, it might be nice to give users the ability to specify if they *don't* want to show up at the top of the list...like a "quiet" friending.


Theres other ideas and I'll try to add them here as I remember them/think of them

it's just frustrating that it doesn't have more privacy options.

it would still be nice if Facebook had a proper competitor but part of the problem I think, is that they were allowed to "buy out" there competition in the early 2010s (WhatsApp, Instagram, oculus, etc...) when they should have been completely *forbidden* from any of those purchases. And because of that, I almost kind of / sort of hope meta fails. Because they as a company have just stagnated for way too long, and so to me, and I think others, it's *good* to see competition rising up.

 

[macfacts]

You couldn’t pay me to use this trash.

with apple's busines model,you are the one who has to pay.

 

[zinacef]

Let’s face it guys, Apple is not driving the tech anymore. If we want cutting edge technology we have to look somewhere else.

Saying Apple isn’t driving tech anymore ignores how it leads in areas like chip performance, privacy, and ecosystem integration. Apple may not always be first, but it consistently refines and popularizes tech in ways others follow—just look at Face ID, M-series chips, or AirPods. Innovation isn’t just being flashy—it’s making tech that works seamlessly at scale, and Apple still does that better than most.

 

[Isamilis]

I tried the app and found that it much less helpful than ChatGPT. Tried for 5 minutes and deleted it. Why bother wasting time having a less-helpful and less-smart assistant.

 

[atomwork]

I'll sick with Grok, I like him better. He understand my madness more.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

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Behold, cutting edge technology.

Fully half of the problem with that response from ChatGPT is its pure, unadulterated unctuousness, ten layers deep. I'm seeing a lot of that from it lately, far more than before, as if it's trying to butter me up to sell me a condo.

 

[hegedusa]

The Meta AI app doesn't do anything. It sits there with a circle and a button to setup glasses. It doesn't hear me. It doesn't let me type. I checked permissions and it hasn't even requested microphone access. Weird.

 

[garranhado]

Let’s face it guys, Apple is not driving the tech anymore. If we want cutting edge technology we have to look somewhere else.

…and not cool anymore. Apple lost 2020s.

 

[Rafagon]

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Behold, cutting edge technology.

Not even once did it bring up the fact that perhaps you should consult with your doctor before taking all of your medications. One of those medications could've been a life-saving blood thinner, or insulin.