Meta on Thursday introduced its free synthetic intelligence assistant, Meta AI, is rolling out throughout its social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram, Fb and Messenger. It is the corporate’s greatest push into AI but.

The assistant can reply questions, create animations and generate photos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned in a video. Meta AI was constructed on the corporate’s newest giant language mannequin known as Meta Llama 3, which was additionally introduced Thursday.

The AI instrument is Meta’s competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini however, in a singular twist, Meta has additionally partnered with Google and Microsoft to supply outcomes from each firms’ search engines like google and yahoo.

“We imagine that Meta AI is now probably the most clever AI assistant you can freely use,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned within the video.

Shares of Meta closed up greater than 1% Thursday.

Meta AI is constructed into the search field of the WhatsApp, Instagram, Fb and Messenger apps so customers can simply ask questions that may be answered via the brand new instrument.

For example, the corporate mentioned customers can ask Meta AI for restaurant suggestions, assist planning a trip or inspiration to embellish a brand new house.

Meta AI can also be accessible on the web site “meta.ai,” the place customers can ask the assistant for assist with duties like fixing a math drawback or writing knowledgeable e mail, based on the discharge. Customers can log their conversations for future reference.

Meta mentioned the assistant’s image-generation function shall be accessible in beta on WhatsApp and the MetaAI web site. Customers will see a picture seem as they begin typing and MetaAI will present prompts to assist change or refine the picture. The photographs can be animated right into a GIF that customers can share.

Meta first launched Meta AI in beta at its Join occasion in September. The assistant is rolling out in English throughout greater than a dozen international locations together with the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Australia, beginning Thursday.