Meta Launches Standalone AI App Powered by Llama 4
Meta releases a new standalone app for its AI assistant, focusing on personalized voice conversations powered by Llama 4. The app also includes an experimental full-duplex speech feature for more natural interactions.
Meta releases a new standalone Meta AI app powered by Llama 4, offering users a dedicated space for personal voice conversations. While people already use Meta AI across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, this new app focuses specifically on creating a more personal, social, and seamless assistant experience. The app is designed to learn about users over time to provide more helpful and relevant answers.
The app integrates standard text and voice interactions with popular features like image generation and editing. Additionally, Meta includes an experimental full-duplex speech technology demo that generates voice directly rather than reading written text, creating a highly natural conversational flow. This experimental voice mode currently lacks web access and may experience technical inconsistencies as Meta collects user feedback.
Built on Llama 4, the standard Meta AI assistant retains full web search capabilities to help users solve problems, get recommendations, and explore topics. Voice features allow users to multitask on their devices, with a clear icon indicating when the microphone is active. Voice conversations and the full-duplex demo are initially available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.