AI apps on an Apple iPhone. (Photo: Solen Feyissa)
The Meta Platform aims to establish a premium version of Meta AI with advanced features.
The AI industry is the fastest-growing industry nowadays. To establish its position high in the market the Meta Platform is considering launching a subscription-based version of AI assistant, Meta AI to compete against tech giants and establish itself as the best tech leader in the market.
The Meta AI is available free of cost already on major social media channels including Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger, and is modeled using Meta Llama 3 which is itself a huge language model.
Meta AI free features across these platforms can assist users in various ways. It includes providing any technical information related to products, restaurants, etc along with generating images and animations of high quality. Students can benefit from this free version as it helps solve math and science problems while professionals can use Meta AI to draft emails and write reports on the ‘meta.ai’ website. Real-time generation of images is also possible in beta on WhatsApp and also at the MetaAI website.
The Meta AI is readily available upon searching in the respective apps. It can also save your conversation for future use on the meta.ai website.
The Meta Platform aims to provide more advanced and unique features in the paid version of Meta AI. The virtual and augmented reality features can be tailored in a more innovative advanced manner for the subscribers. The pricing plans have not yet been disclosed by the Meta platforms but it is expected that the premium version will change the way AI assistants work. Launching this premium model will place Meta alongside companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google as these offer AI chatbot subscriptions.
The CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg has developed a Meta Advisory Group which includes prominent leaders from Stripe, GitHub, Microsoft, and Shopify. This group aims to work with the team of Meta and provide proper recommendations and insights for the betterment of Meta. The group will take the factor of innovation, and strategic growth opportunities while advising the team to support Meta AI product development including VR headsets and smart glasses.
Zuckerberg’s AI Vision is vast. In recent meetings and calls he shared a positive mindset of seeing the Meta company becoming the leading AI company in the world. He also informed me that few AI projects will yield immediate financial benefits and that those projects require patience.
The Meta has high competition from its rivals like Google and Microsoft which can create a bit of hindrance too.
Zuckerberg announced that the company would invest $5 billion to develop new AI products that can benefit its consumers, businesses, developers, and hardware manufacturers indicating a strong commitment to advancing in the technology sector.
