A new Meta AI update brings multilingual support, Llama 3.1 models, and "Imagine me" prompts
The most recent Meta AI update unlocks multilingual support, introduces new features like "Imagine me" for personalized image generation, improved editing capabilities, and provides limited access to the more advanced Llama 3.1 450B model for complex tasks like math and coding.
As if dropping the largest open LLM we've seen recently wasn't enough, Meta has also announced a significant update to its AI assistant, Meta AI. The update expands the assistant's availability to 22 countries. To match the expanded geographic coverage, Meta AI has been enhanced with new multilingual capabilities for interactions across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook; users can now interact with Meta AI on these platforms in French, German, Hindi, Hindi-Romanized Script, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish (more languages upcoming). Meta also committed to a two-week update cycle, where the company will gather user feedback and then make quick experience-enhancing changes, including bringing new features.
The biggest point of excitement for this update is the new "Imagine me" prompts. This feature lets users generate images based on their photo based on how they complete the prompt, like "Imagine me at the beach" or "Imagine me as an astronaut". Meta's state-of-the-art personalization model powers the "Imagine me" prompts, and the outputs can be easily shared with friends and family. The company has also announced improved editing capabilities for all Meta AI generations enabling users to add, remove, replace, and edit objects in a picture.
Additionally, Meta will launch an Edit with AI button next month, enabling further image editing options. Users in English-speaking countries can now generate images within feeds, stories, comments, and messages across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. The feature will eventually cover more languages and countries. Finally, as a sort of preview, Meta AI users can perform a limited number of queries to Llama 3.1 450B. Llama 3.1 70B is still the default model, so users have to switch manually, and once users reach the limit, the assistant will bounce back to the default model.
Meta suggests users try Llama 3.1 450B's advanced math and coding capabilities to obtain step-by-step explanations and feedback on mathematical problems, or coding assistance to get everything from debugging and optimization to creating a game, combining the model's coding capabilities and Meta AI's image generation features. (A pleasant detail, considering that getting assistance from models to code games seems all the rage these days.)
