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.

Published By: Shweta Ganjoo | Published: Jun 12, 2023, 11:41 AM (IST)

Highlights

  • Meta has started testing a generative AI-based chatbot.
  • This chatbot is called Metamate.
  • Meta's Metamate is available only to its employees.

Meta is reportedly rolling out an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot 'Metamate' to its employees, which is trained on internal data. Also Read: Meta layoffs continue in 2026, around 200 jobs cut in California

The new AI chatbot utilises company data to help employees summarise meetings, write code and debug features, reports The Verge. Also Read: Is Mark Zuckerberg building an AI version of himself to run Meta?

The company is currently rolling out this tool internally to a small group. Also Read: Perplexity Computer: How it’s different from a regular chatbot

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.

-- IANS

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