#meta-ai

#meta-ai

Meta's AI app has seen a major jolt in downloads since launching its Vibes feed of AI-generated videos, giving investors a glimpse of the company's artificial intelligence strategy ahead of Wednesday's third-quarter earnings. Since releasing Vibes on Sept. 25, the Meta AI app's downloads on both iOS and Android are up 56% month-to-month to a total of 3.9 million downloads as of Oct. 18, according to data provided to CNBC by mobile research firm Appfigures.

New data indicates that use of Meta AI's mobile app for iOS and Android has seen a significant increase. According to a new analysis from market intelligence provider Similarweb, the app's daily active users across both platforms jumped to 2.7 million as of October 17, up from around 775,000 just four weeks ago. In addition, Meta AI's app installs are also up, reaching 300,000 new downloads per day, compared with under 200,000 daily downloads a few weeks ago.

A Facebook feature that gives Meta AI the ability to suggest edits to photos stored on your phone's camera roll, but haven't yet been shared, is now rolling out to all users in the U.S. and Canada. The company announced on Friday that users can choose to opt in to receive these sharing suggestions, which will then prompt them to post photos to their Facebook Feed and Stories with the AI edits. First launched as a test over the summer, Facebook's app pops up a permission dialog box requesting access to "allow cloud processing" so users can get "creative ideas made for you from your camera roll." This box explains that the feature could offer ideas like collages, recaps, AI restyling, birthday themes, and more for the end user.

Whether it's a voice chat or a text exchange with our AI features, this update will help us improve the recommendations we provide for people across our platforms so they're more likely to see content they're actually interested in - and less of the content they're not,

Meta will soon show ads and other content to users based on their interactions with the company's digital assistant and related products powered by generative artificial intelligence. The social media giant announced the update to its recommendation system on Wednesday, and said it will go into effect on Dec. 16. Users will receive notifications of the change starting on Oct. 7. The move underscores how Meta is attempting to better tie its billion-dollar investments into generative AI with its core online advertising business.

Earlier this year, we introduced chat themes as a way to customize your chats. You can now use the power of Meta AI to boost your creativity, and make custom chat themes of your own. I mean, it's not your creativity, as such, but Meta AI's "creativity" in this respect. But semantics aside, more presentation options for your chats. From there, you can d escribe the image that you'd like to create.

These feature the well-known visor design popularized by Oakley and add most of the smart features found in the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2), like hands-free access to Meta AI, up to 3K video recording and open-ear speakers, which Meta claims are the "most powerful" on any of its glasses to date. All versions of the Vanguard feature Oakley Prizm lenses with gold, black, road and sapphire color options.

Of course talking to Meta AI remains a key way of interacting with the glasses, but Meta hopes that adding the visual elements will enhance the chatbot experience. For example, live speech captioning and language translation is still switched on by voice-but with Meta Ray-Ban Display, you can see the translations and captions appearing in real time on the glasses rather than on your phone's screen.

Meta is weighing up partnerships with Google and OpenAI to boost AI features in its apps, according to The Information. Leaders at Meta Superintelligence Labs have discussed using Google's Gemini model for conversational responses in Meta AI, the company's main chatbot. Talks also include using OpenAI's models to power Meta AI and other social media tools. These deals would be short-term.

On the new standalone Meta AI app, swathes of users are publishing their private conversations, unaware they are sharing them publicly, raising significant privacy concerns.

The Meta AI app could soon get a paid tier, offering a premium service to users seeking more compute or additional functionality as competition heats up.