Headspace is coming to Meta’s Quest 3 VR headset “soon,” Meta’s Head of Developer Relations, Melissa Brown, announced at the company’s Connect event today. The Headspace experience is […]
Meta parties like it’s 2015, brings new chatbots to its messaging apps
Meta, angling for a seat at the AI chatbot table, is launching a host of new AI-powered bots across its messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. They’re […]
Meta debuts AI Studio to let developers build custom chatbots
Today at its annual Connect developer conference, Meta launched AI Studio, a platform that’ll let businesses build AI chatbots for the company’s various messaging services, including Facebook, Instagram […]
Generative AI stickers are coming to Meta’s apps along with AI editing
At its Meta Connect event today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that generative AI stickers would be coming to Meta’s messaging apps. The feature, which is powered by its […]
Former Tinder CEO’s startup to fight loneliness with AI chatbot gets backing by Sequoia
Former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg’s startup Meeno, which aims to fight loneliness through an AI-powered chatbot, announced that it has raised a $3.9 million seed round led by […]
Photo-sharing app Lapse hits top of the App Store by forcing you to invite your friends
Forget invite-only social apps, Lapse is testing a new technique to acquire its users: it forces you to invite your friends in order to get in. The reinvention […]
OpenAI’s GPT-4 with vision still has flaws, paper reveals
When OpenAI first unveiled GPT-4, its flagship text-generating AI model, the company touted the model’s multimodality — in other words, its ability to understand the context of images […]
Sequoia backs PartyKit to power real-time multiplayer collaboration for any app
If a company wants to offer in-app messaging or voice calls, they don’t have to develop the infrastructure themselves when there’s something like Twilio at their disposal. Likewise, […]
Uber Eats and Getir ink tie-up in Europe for speedy grocery deliveries
Uber Eats and quick commerce player Getir have inked a grocery delivery partnership, starting in the UK. The tie-up, which expands the range of groceries on tap for […]
Spotify launches Jam, a real-time collaborative playlist controlled by up to 32 people
Spotify is today introducing its latest social feature, Jam, which allows multiple people to blend their own musical tastes into a combined playlist. However, the new feature, which […]