Meta debuts ChatGPT challenger | LinkedIn
Meta has unveiled its answer to ChatGPT — a standalone AI app with a social media "twist." Meta AI, launched at its LlamaCon event on Tuesday, leverages the social aspects of Facebook and Instagram, allowing users to see how their friends on those platforms are using the AI assistant and vice versa. Users can like, comment and "remix" shared AI posts, and, like ChatGPT, they can also tell Meta AI to remember specific details about themselves.
Meta's new app is directly challenging ChatGPT. Last week, we learned OpenAI is reportedly building its own ChatGPT-based social network: https://lnkd.in/g4uYhMC2. This week, Meta launched the Meta AI app, a standalone mobile app for its ChatGPT competitor: https://lnkd.in/gQdpJASs. The app’s standout feature is the Discover feed, where you can see the AI prompts that your Facebook and Instagram friends and others are sharing.
LlamaCon 2025
The biggest product news today was that Meta is launching a first-party API service for Llama. The Meta message today, in 2025, is that the company is deeply committed to open source AI. Meta will host all the Llama models themselves, accessible via both OpenAI-compatible APIs and Meta's own SDKs. Meta launched an experimental full-duplex voice-to-voice model in the Meta AI application. There were no announcements about native audio support in Llama, today.
Meta Platforms is launching a stand-alone artificial intelligence app and going head-to-head with ChatGPT maker OpenAI. The new AI assistant offering will run on Meta’s Llama AI model. Read more: cnb.cx/4jy6piF. Meta officially enters the AI arena with its stand-alone Meta AI app – a direct challenge to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude AI, and Grok.
At its inaugural LlamaCon event, Meta unveiled a dedicated AI assistant app powered by its Llama AI model, featuring a Discover feed that showcases how users are engaging with the tool and suggests new prompts. With over 700 million monthly active users as of January 2025 and ambitions to reach 1 billion+ users, Mark Zuckerberg is clearly betting big on personalized AI assistance becoming mainstream.
