Tags: Threads

Meta has begun testing a public-facing AI chatbot on its Threads platform, assigning the bot the handle @meta.ai. Users in five countries can tag the account in posts or replies and receive real‑time answers powered by Meta’s Muse Spark model. The feature mirrors X’s AskGrok, but unlike the X tool, the Threads bot posts its replies publicly and currently cannot be blocked, sparking a wave of criticism from early users. Weiterlesen

Meta announced Muse Spark on Wednesday, the inaugural AI model from its Superintelligence Labs. Marketed as a "ground‑up overhaul" of the company’s artificial‑intelligence work, the proprietary system will draw on public content from Instagram, Facebook and Threads to enhance its answers. While Meta says future Muse models will be open source, Spark marks a clear break from the earlier Llama family. Benchmarks show the model performing on par with or better than rival offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI, though Meta admits gaps remain in long‑term reasoning and coding tasks. Weiterlesen

Meta is prototyping a tool that lets Threads users influence the platform’s algorithm by tagging a dedicated account. Discovered by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, the feature would allow users to tell Threads what content they want to see more or less of. Instagram confirmed the work is internal and not yet in user testing. The concept mirrors a similar idea discussed for X, where users could tag the AI chatbot Grok to adjust their feed. Instagram also plans broader controls that let users select topics to prioritize or de‑prioritize, part of a larger effort to give users more transparency over recommendation engines. Weiterlesen