Meta AI App With Voice Conversations, Social Discover Feed Launched

Meta launched a standalone app for its synthetic intelligence (AI) chatbot, Meta AI, on Tuesday. The new Meta AI app is on the market on Android by way of the Play Store and iOS by way of the App Store. The Menlo Park-based tech large has added a social component to the app, the place one can see others customers’ posts and pictures in a Discover feed. Additionally, the corporate is introducing a voice mode the place customers can have a two-way verbal dialog with the chatbot. The voice expertise is at present accessible in solely choose international locations.

In a newsroom put up, the tech large introduced the launch of the Meta AI app and detailed its new options. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had beforehand said that the corporate was engaged on a standalone AI app. The standalone AI app is powered by the Llama 4 AI mannequin and competes with the likes of ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude.

The Meta AI app is designed to be a social expertise. It comes with a Discover feed the place customers can share and discover their expertise with the chatbot. Users can share prompts and Meta AI’s responses or pictures generated utilizing AI. Additionally, they’ll additionally like and touch upon others’ posts or remix them to make use of their prompts. The tech large says nothing is shared to the feed except the person chooses to put up one thing.

Meta AI’s Discover feed
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The social expertise will not be restricted to the Discover feed, both. To log into the app, one wants a Meta account, which will be both your Instagram or Facebook account. When a person indicators in, their account data, corresponding to profile, content material they’ve engaged with, or conversations with Meta AI, will be accessed by the app. 

Using this, the chatbot can generate a personalised expertise for customers. This functionality is at present accessible within the US and Canada, in keeping with Meta.

Apart from drawing on the data from different social media accounts, Meta AI now additionally has reminiscence. It can keep in mind contextual data gathered from conversations with the person to tailor its responses.

Meta additionally affords a hands-free expertise with the AI app. The chatbot can now verbally converse with the person in a pure and conversational tone. The firm mentioned it tweaked the Llama 4 mannequin so as to add this functionality. With this, customers can even ask the AI to generate pictures or edit them by way of voice conversations.

The voice mode on Meta AI
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The firm can be experimenting with a full-duplex speech know-how. This setting instructs the AI to immediately generate voice as an alternative of changing written responses into speech (text-to-speech mannequin). Meta says this expertise is extra pure and feels human-like. However, this mode at present doesn’t have entry to the net or real-time data. The voice mode is at present accessible solely in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US.

Finally, the Meta AI app can be merging with the Meta View companion app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses. This means customers might want to join their sensible glasses with the app to entry sure options corresponding to checking their gallery, enhancing pictures, or checking dialog historical past.

Meta AI’s companion function
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In choose international locations, customers may also have the ability to swap from the AI app to the glasses with out shedding the context of the dialog. However, at present, conversations can solely be began on the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, however they are often continued in both the Meta AI app or the web site. Notably, the Meta AI app is free to obtain and use, and there are not any paid subscriptions for the service in the meanwhile.