The new Meta.ai website can draw amazing AI art instantly
Meta has launched Meta.ai, an AI-specific site that has a cool hook that its competitors don’t offer: It can generate images in real time, and even animate them on demand.
There is a catch, however: Meta would really like to continue improving Meta.ai, and to do so it’s only offering image generation if you sign into your Facebook account.
Meta joins other LLMS or AI chatbots like Google Gemini, Microsoft’s various flavors of Copilot, Anthropic’s Claude AI (used within Discord), and other sites offering AI solutions. Meta.ai feels like more of the same, though with some limitations: It can’t accept uploaded documents, but it can summarize websites or web pages. Of course, it has creative purposes, too: It can also be used to write or rewrite text, as many other services can as well.
Technically, Meta is upgrading Meta AI as well as launching the site itself. Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced the addition of the Meta.ai site on Threads — which is also owned by Meta — as well as the upgrade to the LLaMA 3 model. Meta launched LLaMA in February 2023, and publicly released the 65-billion parameter model. LLaMA 3 will be open-source, as well, Zuckerberg said.
But there’s more: “We’re making Meta AI easier to use by integrating it into the search boxes at the top of WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger,” Zuckerberg added. In other words, expect Meta AI to be all over your social media.
Meta.ai’s amazing powers of AI art
The coolest thing about Meta.ai is its image generation — which is also its most problematic, if you don’t really want to tell Facebook what you’re making images of, or don’t subscribe to Facebook or Instagram in general. But the image progression might be unlike anything you’ve ever seen. If you’re familiar with how Google or Bing starts auto-generating suggestions as you type, Meta does almost the same thing — except it’s drawing the actual pictures as you type, too.