- Meta is planning to roll out AI-powered chatbots with different personas on its social media platforms.
- The chatbots are designed to have humanlike conversations and will launch as early as next month.
- Meta sees the chatbots as a way to boost engagement and collect more data on users.
- The chatbots may raise privacy concerns.
- Snapchat has also launched an AI chatbot, but faced criticism and concerns.
- Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that Meta is building new AI-powered products and will share more details later this year.
- More details on Meta's AI roadmap are expected to be announced in September.
- Meta reported 11% year-over-year revenue growth.
Meta is testing AI chatbots called Gen AI Personas to attract younger customers, but their outdated characters and humor may not resonate with Gen Z, who have varying reactions to chatbots and concerns about privacy.
Meta plans to release personality-driven AI chatbots across various platforms to attract young users, with the first bots expected to launch this week. The bots will be available on social media sites such as Instagram, Facebook, and Whatsapp and aim to increase chat engagement while providing potential productivity tools. Internal documents reveal bots like "Bob the Robot" and "Alvin the Alien," with the former designed to resonate with young people through farcical humor and the latter potentially collecting personal information. Meta's move to target younger users comes in response to TikTok's popularity, and they are also reportedly developing chatbot tools for celebrities.
Meta Connect 2023 VR showcase event, which will unveil the Quest 3 headset and feature new games, can be watched live on Facebook or through Meta's Horizon Worlds app with a Quest VR headset, offering a more affordable option compared to Apple's Vision Pro headset.
Meta Platforms (META) stock has a strong setup, with two buy points in reach, ahead of this week's Connect conference where the parent company of Facebook and Instagram is set to unveil its new virtual-reality headset, generative AI tools, and more.
Meta Platforms is hosting a two-day event on AI and the metaverse, featuring the launch of Quest 3 and AI bots.
Meta is entering the AI chatbot competition with its own assistant and a range of AI characters, offering features such as real-time web results through a partnership with Microsoft's Bing and generating images via prompts, with the aim of providing a conversational and immersive user experience.
Meta is releasing a new model of smart glasses called the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, which serve as both headphones and a camera, with improved features such as upgraded microphones and higher-quality photos and videos, aiming to provide users with a more versatile and visually appealing option in the smart glasses market.
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveils new Ray-Ban smart glasses, AI products, and an updated virtual-reality headset as part of the company's metaverse expansion efforts.
AI-powered stickers, image editing features, a new virtual assistant called Meta AI, and a lineup of AI characters are being introduced by Facebook to enhance connections, creativity, and expression for users on platforms such as WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and AI researcher Lex Fridman showcased Meta's metaverse technology, including ultra-realistic avatars, during a podcast, demonstrating a sense of presence and intimacy that Fridman described as "incredible"; Meta is betting on the integration of AI into virtual and augmented reality to create a metaverse, with the goal of facilitating immersive social experiences and enhanced communication and connection through photorealistic avatars.
Meta's Connect conference focused on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR), with Mark Zuckerberg emphasizing the development of hologram interactions, AI assistants, and the new Quest 3 VR headset.
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is expected to benefit from the AI wave and the personal AI assistant category, presenting a potentially large market opportunity for the company through advertising or subscriptions. Despite the continued spending on the Metaverse and the potential for AR/VR devices to be sold at a loss, Meta remains cheap compared to other tech giants, and the stock is poised for growth.
Meta's Connect keynote focused heavily on the introduction of new AI features, signaling a shift away from the metaverse, which has faced financial challenges and criticism, but AI will still play a significant role in Meta's hardware and the future of the metaverse.
Meta Platforms showcased its new generative AI tools, including AI assistants, chatbots, and image generators, which could increase engagement with its apps and drive revenue for its messaging businesses, potentially propelling the company back into the $1 trillion club.
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, has partnered with Ray-Ban to create second-generation AI-powered smart glasses that can record, make calls, livestream, and more, with a starting price of $299.
Meta's announcement of smart glasses with an AI virtual assistant, combined with OpenAI's development of ChatGPT's ability to see, hear, and speak, indicates a potential shift away from screens as the dominant consumer technology.
Main topic: Review of the Meta Quest 3 VR headset.
Key points:
1. The Meta Quest 3 is an upgrade to the previous Quest 2 model.
2. It offers sharper screens and lenses, faster performance, and mixed reality cameras.
3. The Quest 3 provides a mixed reality experience, though it's not perfect, and lacks certain features like face and eye tracking.
The Meta Quest 3 and Apple's Vision Pro are mixed reality headsets with significantly different price points and target audiences, but while Meta dominates the market in terms of market share, Apple's entry into the space has garnered considerable attention and increased competition.
The Meta Quest 3 offers a hyper-realistic mixed reality experience with impressive color passthrough cameras, although there is limited software that takes advantage of this feature. The headset's improved hardware and hand-recognition controls make it a worthwhile upgrade for owners of older VR devices.
Meta's Quest 3 headset, a video-recording face computer, allows users to interact with the real world and perform daily tasks without taking off the headset, raising concerns of privacy and social boundaries reminiscent of the Google Glass controversy a decade ago.
Main topic: Review of the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses from Meta (formerly Facebook) after two years since the release of its predecessor.
Key points:
1. The glasses have undergone improvements in core features, such as better audio and camera quality, hands-free photo messaging, and livestreaming abilities on Instagram.
2. The design has been refined, with slimmer frames and a more compact charging case.
3. The addition of Meta's AI assistant offers potential for creative use cases, although its usefulness is currently limited.
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Meta Quest Ray-Ban is a mixed-reality headset designed for inconspicuous outdoor use, offering features like hand tracking and livestreaming, while the Meta Quest 3 is a lighter headset exclusively for indoor use, with both devices showcasing clever design and functionality.
Social media giant Meta Platforms is in the buy range and has unveiled new products, including smart glasses and VR headsets, as it continues to see growth in earnings and sales.
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, featuring the new Meta AI digital assistant, have received mixed reviews due to limitations of the assistant's capabilities, concerns over privacy invasion, and relatively short battery life.
Main topic: Growth and future prospects of Meta's Threads app and Meta's focus on generative AI.
Key points:
1. Threads app has "just under" 100 million monthly active users, and Mark Zuckerberg believes there is a "good chance" it could reach 1 billion users in the next few years.
2. The app initially faced engagement issues, but Meta has been adding new features, resulting in increased engagement, including attracting former "power users" from X.
3. Meta is increasingly focused on generative AI and plans to deprioritize non-AI projects, while continuing to invest in the metaverse, despite heavy losses in the AR and VR division.