Meta’s new AI app is changing mobile chat in 2025 by combining WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook capabilities into one Llama 4-powered assistant. The app features celebrity voices like Judi Dench, remembers your preferences across devices, and lets you generate images or edit photos with voice commands. Privacy concerns? Sure, but Meta’s betting you’ll trade personal data for an AI that actually knows what you like. Stick around for the full-duplex revelation.
Meta has released its standalone AI mobile app into the wild, giving users yet another digital companion to talk to instead of actual humans. The April 2025 launch brings all the AI capabilities previously scattered across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger into one dedicated app for iPhone, iPad, and Android users who apparently can’t get enough digital chatter in their lives.
Powered by Meta’s Llama 4 model, the app boasts full-duplex speech technology—fancy talk for letting you interrupt the AI mid-sentence, just like you rudely do with your friends. This feature is currently limited to users in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, where you can choose voice options including celebrity sound-alikes such as Dame Judi Dench and John Cena. (Imagine getting your grocery list read in a wrestling announcer voice. You’re welcome.)
The app isn’t just another chatbot—it’s designed to be *your* chatbot. Its memory feature remembers details about you, similar to how your partner recalls your birthday only after Facebook reminds them. Currently available in the US and Canada, the personalization gets deeper when you connect your Facebook and Instagram accounts, giving Meta even more of your precious data. The app also serves as a companion for AI glasses, maintaining your conversation history as you switch between devices. Like most modern AI tools, it offers personalized recommendations based on your interactions, keeping your digital experience tailored to your specific interests.
Beyond conversation, users can prompt the AI to generate images through text or voice, edit photos, and even remix responses like modifying recipes. The app includes a Discover feed that showcases AI prompts used by others in the community. “Add more cheese” is finally a command your phone will understand.
What sets Meta’s offering apart is its social integration. Unlike competing AI apps, Meta’s version shows how others are using the assistant and enables sharing AI interactions in group chats. It’s social media meets AI, with all the privacy concerns that unholy marriage entails.
The familiar chat interface comes with login options through Facebook or Instagram for those willing to trade privacy for convenience. Just remember—each “helpful” personalized response comes courtesy of Meta knowing more about your digital life than your closest friends do.
