Meta starts testing generative AI-based model with employees: Here’s what the chatbot does

Meta is reportedly rolling out an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ‘Metamate’ to its employees, which is trained on internal data. Also Read: Rockstar Games isn’t using generative AI for GTA 6, Take-Two CEO confirms

The new AI chatbot utilises company data to help employees summarise meetings, write code and debug features, reports The Verge. Also Read: ChatGPT is losing GPT-4o and other models as OpenAI shifts focus to GPT-5 models

The company is currently rolling out this tool internally to a small group. Also Read: Mark Zuckerberg’s AI comment raises fresh questions about jobs at Meta: Here’s what he said

When considering how to power the chatbot, Meta had discussions with Microsoft and OpenAI, but it decided to employ a separate, in-house model.

In February this year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had announced that the company was creating a new “top-level” product team which would be “focused” on generative AI.

He explained that in the short term, the company would focus on building creative and expressive tools.

And, over the longer term, the company would develop “AI personas” which will help users in a variety of ways.

Last week, it was reported that Meta-owned Instagram was working on a feature that would let users chat with AI within the app.

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— IANS