Meta to let users to create custom AI characters

September 22, 2024 - 11:56 AM
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech, as the letters AI for artificial intelligence appear on screen, at the Meta Connect event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., September 27, 2023. (Reuters/Carlos Barria/File Photo)

Meta Platforms META.O in July said it will roll out a new tool called AI Studio that will allow users to create, share and design personalized AI chatbots.

The AI Studio will allow users to create customized AI characters and also allow Instagram creators to use the AI characters “as an extension of themselves” that can handle common DM questions and story replies, Meta said.

Users can share their AI characters on the social media giant’s various platforms.

The new tool is built with Meta’s Llama 3.1, the biggest version of its mostly free artificial intelligence models released last week, which is available in multiple languages and has performance metrics that compete with paid models from rivals like OpenAI.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is working on a project code-named “Strawberry,” the details of which are tightly kept secret even within OpenAI, as the startup races to show that the types of models it offers are capable of delivering advanced reasoning capabilities, Reuters exclusively reported earlier in July.

 —Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Tasim Zahid