Meta to Form AI Product Team to Keep Up With Chatbot Competition

  • New group will report directly to Chief Product Officer Cox
  • Team focused on ‘developing AI personas’ and other products

Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

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The chatbot battle is heating up, and Mark Zuckerberg is making it clear that Meta Platforms Inc. is focusing on artificial intelligence-powered tools, too.

“We’re creating a new top-level product group at Meta focused on generative AI to turbocharge our work in this area,” Meta Chief Executive Officer Zuckerberg said Monday in a post on Instagram. “We have a lot of foundational work to do before getting to the really futuristic experiences, but I’m excited about all the new things we’ll build along the way.”