Meta + ΑΙ = L.F.E

We think the title of the section says it all. Meta and AI are in love forever, so let’s see what Mark announced to us last week.

• Meta AI Assistant: We’re moving from the AI race to the AI Chatbot race, because one is none, dear friends. Meta AI is a general-purpose AI chatbot. It will help you plan a trip and even answer questions you would typically ask Google. The chatbot can also generate images with the command /imagine and has access to Bing and therefore real-time information. For now (since we haven’t tried it yet), the only difference with ChatGPT Plus is that Meta AI is free. Meta AI will be available on WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, and will be added to Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses (we’ll talk about those in a bit, and by a bit we mean the very next highlight) and to Quest 3.

• AI Studio: Simply, concisely, in a Doric style; it’s a platform where you can create AI chatbots for the company’s various messaging services, including Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. It will mainly concern e-commerce and customer support chatbots.

• AI Characters: Along with the Meta AI chatbot, Meta also announced 28 (!!!) new AI characters that you can talk to on its messaging apps. Most of them are celebrities and influencers like Charli D’Amelio, Kendall Jenner, MrBeast, Snoop Dogg, and Paris Hilton, while others have specific uses like a travel agent. The interesting thing about these chatbots is that as you talk to them, their profile picture animates slightly based on the conversation. They also have their own profile on Instagram and Facebook.
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“We just saw huge demand for the models, and then we saw an incredible amount of innovation happening on the models that really helped us understand their performance, understand their weaknesses, and help us iterate and leverage some of those components directly into product.”

Wearing  ΑΙ

Now we can even wear AI! The Humane AI Pin made its appearance at Paris Fashion Week. We saw it on Naomi Campbell’s lapel during the Coperni Spring-Summer 2024 collection show. This is the first time the device has been seen on someone who does not work at Humane.

The AI pin is an “intelligent clothing-based wearable device that uses a range of sensors that enable contextual and ambient compute interactions”. However, it’s not the only AI wearable out there. Meta, in collaboration with Ray-Ban, will release the Meta Smart Glasses Collection. This is a collection of sunglasses that will allow you to stay connected and capture the moment without having to take out your phone. You can see the entire collection here.

Finally, we have the Rewind Pendant, a necklace that listens to everything you do in the real world, transcribes it, encrypts it, and stores it on your phone. The widespread use of all of these seems quite futuristic and distant, but it’s probably just the beginning, as more and more companies will be involved in blending the physical and digital worlds in the most literal sense, and not in the metaverse sense.