Meta rolls out new Meta AI website, and it might just bury Microsoft ...
Meta AI is getting a new upgrade as Meta tries to establish dominance in the generative AI marketplace against OpenAI and Google. The announcement came from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself on Threads, where he touted some stats and details about the new Llama 3 model used to underpin Meta AI, which is being integrated into several of its products like Messenger and Instagram, as well as getting its own dedicated site.
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"We're upgrading Meta AI with our new state-of-the-art Llama 3 AI model, which we're open sourcing," Zuckerberg writes. "With this new model, we believe Meta AI is now the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use."
The new model will be accessible through several apps on desktop and mobile, including search functionality in Messenger, Meta AI in your Facebook feed, and more.
New Meta AI Website
The new Meta AI site, which has an interface strikingly familiar to OpenAI's ChatGPT, is available now for free, but you are also prompted to log in with Facebook to help train the model (though you can skip that if you'd like).
The Meta AI site offers text responses as well as the ability to generate images, though for the latter you will have to log in with a Facebook account.
The image generator in particular is rather impressive, especially since it offers you a real-time preview of the image output that your prompt will generate. It also gives you the option to animate images to produce short MP4 videos.
Comparison with Competitors
The new Meta AI site offers some seriously impressive functionality in the few minutes I've been able to play around with it, but without question, it is the major competitor to ChatGPT and OpenAI right now.
OpenAI's ChatGPT and Dall-E are impressive but have some noticeable limitations.
Meta AI vs. OpenAI
When I asked Meta AI to produce a sonnet about Meta AI, it gave me a unique response that showcases its capabilities. Whereas OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 struggled with language structure.
There is a clear difference in the training data that both models have used, with Meta AI likely drawing from text written on Meta products and using modern language sources.
Future of Meta AI
Since none of us actually know how any of this stuff is trained yet, we might never get answers to these questions, but Zuckerberg did announce that Meta plans to open-source this model, so we should soon be able to at least learn more about its inner workings once it does.
In the meantime, have fun playing around with Meta's new tool, as it's certainly a powerful one.
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