What is the Meta AI tool? Can you turn it off? New feature rolls out on ...
Meta unveiled its artificial intelligence tool, Meta AI, last week in more than a dozen countries across its various platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The tool created by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, can be used to "get things done, learn, create and connect with the things that matter to you," according to an April 18 release from the company.
Meta AI is free, and can be used in feeds, chats, search and more without having to leave the app you're using. It also has an image generation tool that can quickly produce AI images and GIFs.
New Feature Availability
The feature is now available to use in the following countries: Australia, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Malawi, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, the U.S., Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Details about Meta AI
Here's what you should know about Meta AI. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp rolled out the new, free AI feature available on those platforms to more than a dozen countries in English, including in the U.S. According to a news release from the tech giant, Meta AI allows users to "access real-time information from across the web without having to bounce between apps." Meta AI can be accessed in the Facebook feed and on Instagram search, and Meta is rolling out beta testing in the U.S. on WhatsApp to create images from text in real time using the AI's Imagine feature.
You can also access the tool on its own website, meta.ai. There is currently no option to disable the feature, Meta AI confirmed in a chat, but people can continue to search as they normally would to "engage with a variety of results."
Meta's AI Initiatives
Meta's making several big moves today to promote its AI services across its platform. The company has upgraded its AI chatbot with its newest large language model, Llama 3, and it is now running it in the search bar of its four major apps (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp) across multiple countries. This confirms and extends a test that TechCrunch reported on last week, when we spotted that the company had started testing Meta AI on Instagram's search bar.
New AI models from Meta are making waves in technology circles. The two new models, part of the Facebook parent company's Llama line of artificial intelligence tools, are both open source, helping them stand apart from competing offerings from OpenAI and other well-known names. Meta's new Llama models have differently sized underlying datasets, with the Llama 3 8B model featuring eight billion parameters, and the Llama 3 70B model some 70 billion parameters.
