Meta Launches Meta AI to Compete with ChatGPT
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has unveiled a new AI-powered assistant, Meta AI, designed to integrate seamlessly with Meta’s ecosystem, including Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and the company’s mixed reality devices. This move puts Meta in direct competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
At the recent Meta Connect event on September 27, Zuckerberg introduced Meta AI, powered by the company’s substantial language model, Llama 2. The development of this AI assistant involved collaboration with Microsoft Bing, allowing users to access real-time internet information effortlessly.
Zuckerberg described Meta AI as a “basic assistant that you can talk to like a person.” Beyond answering questions and engaging in conversations, this AI can also generate images using a new tool called Emu. Meta trained Emu on an extensive dataset comprising