Meta now has a team dedicated to building AI-powered tools, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post on Monday. This could eventually include “AI characters” designed to help people in “various ways,” plus new AI tools in its apps and services.
More specifically, Zuckerberg says the company is working on AI “experiences” with text, such as chat with Messenger and WhatsApp, image experiences for things like “Instagram creative filters and ad formats,” as well as “video and multimodal experiences.” “. ” According AxiosThe new AI team will be led by Ahmad Al-Dahle, Meta’s vice president of AI and machine learning, who previously worked in Apple’s specialty products group.
“We are creating a new high-level product group in Meta focused on generative AI to power our work in this area,” Zuckerberg writes. “We have a lot of fundamental work to do before we get to the truly futuristic experiences, but I am excited about all the new things we will build along the way.”
