Meta is widely launching the ability for its AI chatbot to “remember” certain details about you, such as your dietary preferences or your interests, the company said in a blog post on Monday. It will then use your past conversations, in addition to details from Facebook and Instagram accounts, to provide more relevant recommendations.
Meta AI wants to be more like your good friend who remembers all the important details about you and less like an impersonal AI chatbot. Meta is rolling out updates to its AI assistant across Messenger, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram in the U.S. and Canada to do just that.
Meta CEO Zuckerberg announced that the company would spend as much as $65 billion on projects related to AI in the coming year, including construction of a large data c
Meta is giving its AI assistant a better “memory” in an effort to make the chatbot more useful. The company’s latest AI update allows the assistant to “remember certain details that you share with it in 1:1 chat” and uses your past activity on Facebook and Instagram to make more personalized recommendations.
Meta and other AI competitors are facing challenges from China's DeepSeek as its new AI model outperforms competitors at lower costs.
Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, said DeepSeek's success with R1 said more about the value of open-source than Chinese competition.
Meta AI is an artificial intelligence assistant that rolled out for Facebook, Messenger and Instagram in 2023. It has a similar feature set as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Meta AI can search the web for information, translate text, generate images and help the user with programming tasks. Today’s update adds two new personalization features to the service.
DeepSeek’s latest models, created by a small company with limited resources, are already beating many of the leading AI models in the United States.
The company plans to spend up to $65 billion on infrastructure for AI in 2025, and is planning a data center with a footprint almost as large as Manhattan.
Artificial intelligence researchers at Meta Platforms have been in panic mode. In recent days, leaders of some of the company’s AI teams openly worried that new conversational AI made by a Chinese hedge fund meant Meta was falling behind in the AI race.
The inability of Meta's AI chatbot to identify the current president of the United States was elevated to urgent status by the Facebook owner this week, requiring a fast fix, a person familiar with the issue said.
On Friday, Mark Zuckerberg announced a $60-65 billion investment into Meta AI.