Chatbot Meta AI Will Soon Get Its Own App to Compete with ChatGPT

Meta✴ plans to launch a standalone app for its AI-powered chatbot soon, CNBC reported, citing informed sources. According to them, the software product will be announced in the second quarter. Meta✴ AI is currently available to users only through its website, as well as on Facebook✴ and WhatsApp.

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While a large audience of Meta✴ family of apps has access to Meta✴ AI, they would be more comfortable interacting with the digital assistant and be able to fully utilize its capabilities if the chatbot were available as a separate app, many users say.

In January, one Threads user wrote that a standalone Meta✴ AI app could help the company unify the digital assistant across smartphones and various hardware platforms, such as Ray-Ban Meta✴ smart glasses, allowing users to organize their conversation histories with the digital assistant and provide “deeper personalization and customization.” Meta✴ CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded with a red “100” emoji in full agreement.

In January, during his fourth-quarter earnings call, Zuckerberg said Meta✴ AI would reach more than 1 billion people this year, and he expected “Meta AI to become the leading AI assistant.”

Meta✴ also plans to test a paid subscription for Meta✴ AI, similar to the practice of OpenAI and Microsoft, which offer users access to more powerful versions of their ChatGPT and Copilot chatbots for a monthly fee, the sources said.