Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Meta Platforms Inc., arrives at the Meto Connect event in Menlo Park in California, September 25, 2024.
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Finish AI will soon become one of the independent applications of the media company, joining Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, CNBC found out.
According to people familiar with this case, the company intends to debut the finish of the application in the second quarter. Means a significant step in a meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's He plans to make his company a leader of artificial intelligence by the end of the year, ahead of competitors such as Opeli and AlphabetThe people who asked for them said because the project is confidential.
Meta AI CHATBOT fired In September 2023, because the company put it as a generative digital assistant powered by artificial intelligence, which can give answers and create images based on user lines in existing applications. The company led Meta AI in honor of its applications in April, when it replaced Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger with chatbot.
From then on, Meta AI has become the main method for Zuckerberg to present your company Generative AI technologies billions of consumers.
“It will be a year in which the highly intelligent and personalized assistant AI reaches over 1 billion people, and I expect that Meta AI will be the leading AI assistant,” Zuckerberg he said Analysts during the company Earnings in the fourth quarter Call in January.
Unlike competitive AI generative tools such as Chatgpt AND EmbarrassmentMeta AI is currently available only to users via the company's website and application, such as Facebook and WhatsApp. Although the huge base of META users in the application family can access the meta AI, users could potentially go deeper with a digital assistant if it was available as an independent application, people.
In January, Zuckerberg publicly agreed with the user of the thread, who said that the finish should create an independent mobile application for his digital assistant.
Thread user wrote that a separate META AI application can help the company unite a digital assistant on smartphones and various hardware platforms such as Ray-Ban Meta Intelligent GlassesHelp users organize their conversation stories with a digital assistant and enable “deeper personalization and adaptation”.
Zuckerberg replied To the user threads with the red emoji “100”, often used in online conversation to convey with all my heart.
The meta also plans to test the paid subscription service for Meta AI, as did OpenAI and Microsoft People say that fees for monthly fees for access to stronger versions of their chatgpt and copilot chats.
Susan Li, the head of Meta Finance, told the analysts in January that although the company's AI efforts focus on “building excellent consumer experience”, in time “quite clearly monetization possibilities, including paid recommendations and bonus offer”.
The company refused to comment.
Shortly after the publication of this story, the general director of Opeli, Altman Slyly himself, said X Post“Ok, maybe we'll make a social application.”
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Li told analysts in January that Meta AI has about 700 million active monthly users, compared to 600 million in December.
Despite this, analysts were difficult to directly compare the use of Meta AI with chatgpt and other rivals, because it is not available as an individual application.
David Curry, an editor of Insight Business of Apps, said CNBC in December that the Meta AI Standalone website generates less than 10 million views per month, which, as he said, was “much below the main services (chatgpt, gemini, etc.), and even lower than some medium -range players.”
India is “the largest metal metalization market”, Li he said Analysts in July. Which coincided with the signs Stop and commitment to WhatsAppLi added. In January, Li said that WhatsApp is experiencing the greatest meta AI, and then Facebook, which generates “strong involvement in our integration of deep divers, which allows people to ask meta and questions about the content that they recommend.”
The planned debut of the meta self -application Meta AI is in line with similar Google efforts and Elon Musk's Xai. Two have recently published individual applications for the relevant Gemini and GROK digital assistants.
Google he said In November, users could download a dedicated iOS application for her assistant Gemini, following chatbot debut As an Android application in February 2024, last week, the company Removed The ability to access iOS users to access Gemini via the Google mobile application, telling them: “To continue using Gemini, download the new Gemini application from the App Store.”
In January, XAI debuted with the official GROK iOS application with a dedicated website, expanding Digital assistant In addition to social services Musk, X. People who want to access Grok as an Android application must now join the waiting list.
CHATGPT is still the most popular digital application powered by AI, measured by downloading the application, according to the Mobile 2025 Sensor Tower reportpublished in January. According to the report, the highest generative Chatbot AI applications were chatgpt, followed by Google Gemini, Byedance Doubo and Microsoft Copilot.
Zuckerberg is increasingly putting pressure on generative AI Meta teams to improve their products, including Meta AI, which wants to be the most used chat application in the world, give sources.
Many employees working on efforts said that there is a job pressure seven days a week to keep the pace of the AI race.
“Meta is working on building one of the most important technologies in the world. AI, glasses as another computer platform and the future of social media, “Zuckerberg told employees in January note Announcement of exemptions. “It will be an intense year and I want to make sure we have the best people in our teams.”
– Salvador Rodriguez from CNBC contributed to this report.
