The Meta company announces tonight that the personal artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI, will gradually become available worldwide through the Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger apps. The AI assistant launches tonight, in English, in more than 12 countries outside the US (including Australia, Canada, Ghana, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe).
The AI assistant will also be accessible via the computer browser, and people will be able to access it when they scroll through their Facebook feed. The company also announces a new open source language model that records industry-leading performance (Meta Llama 3) New tool for creating images from text commands in real time. Will be launched in beta in the United States, on WhatsApp, and on the web version of Meta AI. Technology giant is also introducing new capabilities to animate photos with the help of the artificial intelligence assistant, which will be able to turn photos into animations and even into GIF files. Meta is currently training a model as large as 400 billion parameters - and any final decision about its open source release will be made following the safety assessment that will take place in the coming months. The company is sharing tonight how it refined the way the personal assistant, Meta AI, will respond to prompts on political or social issues, and incorporated guidelines to ensure that the AI assistant does not present a single opinion or point of view but summarizes various relevant perspectives on the subject. Meta also used red teams and external experts to identify unexpected ways people might abuse Meta AI or the Llama 3 model, and implemented safeguards - both at the prompt level and at the output level of the AI assistant.