Meta has launched a new social app called Pocket that lets you create and share small interactive “gizmos” with AI prompts, as reported business insider.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is working hard on AI as the new social media, and he previously described a vision for how users could use AI to create interactive experiences and share them with people. The launch of Pocket appears to be an expression of that idea, and it follows Meta hiring engineers from a company called Atma Sciences Inc., which had created an app called Gizmo, as business insider Reported in March. Meta has received a non-exclusive license to use the company’s technology, and based on screenshots of Pocket on Google Play, the app looks quite similar to Gizmo.
“Scroll through a feed of stuff from people around the world,” Meta says in Pocket’s Google Play description. “Gizmos respond to your touch and the tilt of your phone. They play sound effects and your favorite songs. They can use your camera or pull photos from your camera roll. Some can even reason about the world around them.” On the Help Center page, Meta also describes a tool as a “playable AI-generated experience,” and when you post one, Meta says you can choose to let other people remix them.
However, if you’re in the US, it doesn’t look like you can download Pockets right now. two based in usa the verge Employees noticed a note on the Google Play listing stating that the app was “not available in your country.” I can’t find the app on Apple’s US App Store. Meta also notes in its Help Center that the app is “not available everywhere yet.” The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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