As part of Meta Connect today, Meta and Microsoft announced a collaboration where Bing search will be incorporated into the new chat experiences from Meta AI on Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
As part of Meta Connect 2023 today. Meta announced a new chatbot experience called, naturally, Met Meta AI. It’s also partnering with another company that knows something about chatbots, Microsoft.
In today’s announcement, Meta stated that Meta AI is now available in beta in the US. It’s accessible on Meta’s social media and chat services, including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. Meta says:
It’s powered by a custom model that leverages technology from Llama 2 and our latest large language model (LLM) research. In text-based chats, Meta AI has access to real-time information through our search partnership with Bing and offers a tool for image generation.
In its own announcement on the official Bing blog, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi commented on the new partnership with Meta:
In addition to copilots across the portfolio of Microsoft products, we are a platform company that provides the tools and services needed for others to succeed in their AI ambitions.
