Meta Launches Standalone AI Assistant

PLUS: Google adds AI tools for language learning; Freepik debuts copyright-safe AI image model.

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  • Meta’s new AI app takes direct aim at ChatGPT.

  • Google launches AI tools for real-life, slang, and visual language learning.

  • Freepik launches F Lite, an AI image model trained on licensed data.

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NEWS UPDATES

Meta AI App Goes Solo to Compete

Meta just launched Meta AI, a standalone chatbot app built on its Llama language model, to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Unlike its earlier integrations in Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, this new app runs independently and features voice chat, social feeds, and deeper personalization using user data from Meta’s platforms. It connects with Ray-Ban smart glasses and previews new tools for developers. This move signals Meta’s push to own the AI interface layer across consumer touchpoints.

Google Adds AI to Language Learning

Google launched three new AI tools that help people learn languages through personalized practice. One tool gives quick phrases for real-life situations, like losing a passport. Another teaches slang through chat-style conversations. The third uses your phone camera to label objects in different languages. These tools run on Google’s Gemini AI and are now live in Google Labs. They support over 20 languages. This shows how AI may soon change how global teams train, onboard, and communicate.

Freepik Offers Copyright-Safe AI Images

Freepik released F Lite, a new AI image generator trained only on licensed, safe-for-work content. Built with Fal.ai and 64 Nvidia H100 GPUs, it aims to give developers a modifiable model without legal risk. It joins Adobe and Getty in offering copyright-safe alternatives. As legal pressure mounts on AI firms using unlicensed data, demand may shift toward models like F Lite that reduce IP exposure in creative workflows.

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Useful Resources

  • The three AI markets shaping our future (link)

  • Why scaling agentic AI is a marathon, not a sprint (link)

  • AI supercomputers may run into power constraints by 2030 (link)

  • Anthropic CEO wants to open the black box of AI models by 2027 (link)

  • The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni (link)

  • ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot (link)

  • If Google maps isn't working for you, try these 7 tips for summer travel (link)

  • Future-proofing your legal department: the AI-savvy general counsel (link)

  • Adobe firefly image model 4 ultra is its most realistic AI image generator (link)

  • Foster key thinking skills to guard against the cognitive laziness AI encourages (link)

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