At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park on Wednesday, Meta announced that it’s expanding its AI-powered business chatbots to brands on WhatsApp and Messenger using click-to-message ads. Now businesses can set up ad-embedded chatbots that talk to customers, offer support, and facilitate orders, Meta says. “From answering common customer questions to discussing … Read more
Meta AI’s Imagine features, which use generative AI to turn text prompts into images, are now being expanded across Facebook and Instagram, the company announced at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday. With the update, users will be able to use prompts to generate AI photos directly in their feed, Stories, and for their Facebook profile … Read more
Meta AI is starting to catch up with Google when it comes to AI-powered photo editing. On Wednesday, at the Meta Connect 2024 conference, the tech giant announced that Meta AI will now be able to help you edit photos using AI technology and answer questions about the photos you share. The additional features are … Read more
Canva just announced new enhancements to its developer platform, such as including premium apps with its Pro subscription, a translation feature for apps, better discovery mechanisms, and new API functionalities. The creative tool company started its developer program in June 2023 to let developers build add-ons that people can use in Canva. Think of them … Read more
At its annual Meta Connect event on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company has rebuilt its social apps for mixed reality. “We’ve got all new Instagram and Facebook experiences to bring your feeds and your Reels with you into mixed reality,” Zuckerberg said. “A really nice interface so you can lean back … Read more
Famed Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator on Wednesday kicked off its two-day “Demo Day” event that showcases what the most recent YC batch, S24, companies are building. Unsurprisingly, AI companies dominated the day, with startups looking to apply the technology to problems like estate planning and settlements, Elayne; automating clinical trial data, Baseline AI; … Read more
Announced at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday, Meta is launching a new VR app called Hyperscape that renders recreations of real-life spaces in high fidelity, so you can explore them while wearing a Quest headset. Available in beta in the U.S., Hyperscape lets you use a phone to scan a room and then recreate it. … Read more
Following the abrupt departure of OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, CEO Sam Altman is reportedly poised to receive equity in the company for the first time as OpenAI moves away from its longstanding nonprofit structure. Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter, reports that OpenAI plans to restructure into a for-profit benefit corporation — similar to … Read more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced updates to the company’s Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday. Meta continued to make the case that smart glasses can be the next big consumer device, announcing some new AI capabilities and familiar features from smartphones coming to Ray-Ban Meta later this year. Some of Meta’s … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday during Meta Connect 2024 that Meta AI is one of the most used AI assistant across the world with “almost” 500 million monthly active users. Zuckerberg said that Meta AI is on track to become the most used assistant across the world. “We’re almost at 500 million monthly activities, and we … Read more