Meta has released its first standalone AI app on the iPhone and iPad. Meta AI is built on Meta’s Llama 4 model and provides a dedicated interface for text and voice chat. There’s also a social feed for discovering new ways to use AI.
Meta AI replaces the Meta View app that was previously only used for managing Meta smart glasses. Meta already integrated its AI chatbot across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Meta AI also has a standalone experience on the web at meta.ai. Launching a dedicated AI chat bot app, however, brings focus to the technology with a competitor to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini apps.
While speaking with AI using your voice isn’t new, we’ve improved our underlying model with Llama 4 to bring you responses that feel more personal and relevant, and more conversational in tone. And the app integrates with other Meta AI features like image generation and editing, which can now all be done through a voice or text conversation with your AI assistant.
We’ve also included a voice demo built with full-duplex speech technology, that you can toggle on and off to test. This technology will deliver a more natural voice experience trained on conversational dialogue, so the AI is generating voice directly instead of reading written responses. It doesn’t have access to the web or real-time information, but we wanted to provide a glimpse into the future by letting people experiment with this. You may encounter technical issues or inconsistencies so we’ll continue to gather feedback to help us improve the experience over time.
Using the Meta AI app only requires a standalone Meta account. Optionally, you can choose to connect your Facebook or Instagram account to personalize your Meta AI experience.
We’re using our decades of work personalizing people’s experiences on our platforms to make Meta AI more personal. You can tell Meta AI to remember certain things about you (like that you love to travel and learn new languages), and it can also pick up important details based on context. Your Meta AI assistant also delivers more relevant answers to your questions by drawing on information you’ve already chosen to share on Meta products, like your profile, and content you like or engage with. Personalized responses are available today in the US and Canada. And if you’ve added your Facebook and Instagram accounts to the same Accounts Center, Meta AI can draw from both to provide an even stronger personalized experience for you.
Naturally, Meta includes a social component with a dedicated feed where people can share and discover AI prompts, something that already happens organically on other social media feeds.
And just like all our platforms, we built Meta AI to connect you with the people and things you care about. The Meta AI app includes a Discover feed, a place to share and explore how others are using AI. You can see the best prompts people are sharing, or remix them to make them your own. And as always, you’re in control: nothing is shared to your feed unless you choose to post it.
Learn more about the new Meta AI app here, and download it from the App Store today.
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