https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/meta-parties-like-its-2015-brings-new-chatbots-to-its-messaging-apps/

Meta, angling for a seat at the AI chatbot table, is launching a host of new AI-powered bots across its messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. They’re available for select users in beta in the U.S. as of today.

One is an AI assistant called Meta AI, which, judging by The Verge’s hands-on piece, is exceptionally similar to chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude 2. Meta AI — which will soon come to Meta’s newly announced Quest 3 VR headset, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said onstage at Meta’s Connect conference today — can help plan a trip with friends in a group chat, answer general-knowledge questions and search the internet across Microsoft’s Bing to provide real-time web results.