Meta's new AI app

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Tuesday.

Meta has released a new standalone app for Meta AI, powered by Llama 4. The app supports both voice and text conversations and includes tools like image generation, editing, and a Discover feed to explore how others are using AI.

But will people use it?

ChatGPT is to AI assistants what Google is to search, Zoom was to video calls during COVID, or Kleenex is to tissues.

Becoming the mental model and category leader matters — a lot. And if I had to bet, ChatGPT still holds the top spot. It will take something massive to unseat it.

For now, Meta is still best known for Facebook and Instagram.

OK let’s keep going ↓

Here’s what you should know:

• Google launches AI tools for practicing languages

  A collection of bite-sized learning experiments built with Gemini.

• Why Google's search engine trial is about AI

  Potential Google AI monopoly?

• Yelp debuts AI voice agents

  AI-powered call answering services.

• Ex-school athletic director gets 4 months in jail for racist deepfake recording

  For impersonating the school’s principal…

• Nearly 6 out of 10 workers admit making AI-fueled errors

  Many employees using AI at work are “knowingly using it improperly,” according to a KPMG report.

• New AI technique can uncover antiviral compounds using limited data

  The authors put their AI-chosen shortlist to the test: out of eight compounds, five successfully slowed the virus in cell experiments—about ten times more hits than traditional screening methods usually deliver.

• Natasha Lyonne set to make feature directorial debut with AI film

  The actress and the tech pioneer will also work with Brit Marling and AI studio Asteria on 'Uncanny Valley.'

Also, Grok 3.5 early beta is coming soon.

The numbers:

• Blooming Health raised $26 million in Series A funding to scale its AI-powered platform connecting millions to social care services nationwide.

• P-1 AI raised $23 million to build an AI engineering agent for physical system design, starting with data center cooling and expanding toward aerospace and defense.

• London-based Dex raised $3.1 million in pre-seed funding from a16z speedrun and Concept Ventures to scale its AI voice recruiting agent and machine learning-powered talent matchmaking engine.

Thought starters:

• The Quest to ‘Solve All Diseases’ with AI: Isomorphic Labs’ Max Jaderberg

• Mark Zuckerberg – Llama 4, DeepSeek, Trump, AI Friends, & Race to AGI

• AI Leaders Debate Progress, Safety, and Global Impact at TIME100 Summit

Whether or not it’s accurate, the fact that we’re not shocked by this says a lot:

Meme of the day:

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

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