Earlier this week, Meta quietly rolled out its AI-powered chatbot called Meta AI on WhatsApp and Instagram to some users. Given that I've never tried Meta's AI chatbot, this seemed like a good opportunity to test it out. Also, I wanted to test what an AI chatbot offers in a messaging app like WhatsApp and what kind of tools it can provide. So today I'm sharing my first impressions of Meta AI on WhatsApp.

Before we begin, here's a brief overview of Meta AI itself. This chatbot is powered by Llama 2, a generative text model, along with Meta's large language model (LLM) research.

This helps this chatbot provide quick responses to your prompts without you having to wait forever for a response. Meta has also partnered with Microsoft's Bing search to provide real-time information in conversations if the topic comes up.

So basically it can do text conversations, fetch the latest information available on the internet, link sources and not to forget it can also generate images (more on that later). What it can't do is receive voicemails or respond in one like ChatGPT or Google Gemini can.