Meta is integrating its AI Studio into WhatsApp, allowing you to build your own AI chatbot assistant and utilize it within the messaging software.
WABetaInfo discovered that AI Studio is rolling out to a small number of WhatsApp beta testers on TestFlight. If the feature receives sufficient positive feedback, Meta will roll it out to all WhatsApp users.
Meta AI is already available within WhatsApp and other apps, and AI Studio on the web. By integrating AI Studio into WhatsApp, people will be ableto create their own unique AIs tailored to specific skills, from within the app, and start talking with it right away. Meta will use your interactions with these AIs to improve its AI.
Meta is integrating AI Studio into WhatsApp
The feature takes you through a few steps where you answer some basic questions about your AI, including describing its role, personality traits and more. You can choose from pre-populated choices or write your own.
For example, pre-built choices for AI roles include a study coach, a travel assistant, a motivational companion and more. As for personality styles, you can choose from calm, thoughtful, confident, direct, sassy, playful, empathetic, energetic, funny, professional, informative and more.
As the last step, you must name your cover and pick a cover to distinguish it from other AIs in lists. The system will also create an AI avatar for you, but you can customize its appearance to your liking.
“Previously, if WhatsApp users wanted to create an AI available across Meta platforms, they had to visit the official Meta AI Studio website or use Instagram and Messenger, which already supported this feature,” explains WABetaInfo.
“Now, Meta is integrating this capability directly into WhatsApp, allowing users to experiment with AI creation without ever leaving the app. This update represents a major step forward in making AI more accessible and customizable for WhatsApp users.”
Usernames and other upcoming features
Meta is also testing other features, including usernames, which will permit you to use the app without revealing your actual mobile phone number. A recent update has ensured that messages deleted for everyone in the chat are also deleted from quoted replies, fixing a significant privacy leak.
Meta also finally added support for a native iPad interface, so you can multitask while keeping tabs on your WhatsApp chats. Other WhatsApp enhancements that rolled out in the past few weeks include voice chat in group conversations, as well as AI wallpapers, message summarization and new privacy controls.
Meta could also release a native iPad app for Instagram. The Information said a while ago that Meta was developing such an app. Mark Gurman corroborated the report on Bloomberg, saying a native Instagram iPad app optimized for the tablet’s larger display remains in the works and is on track for release later this year.