AI News roundup: Elon Musk working on ChatGPT rival, Snapchat eyes slice of AI pie, Zoom's AI integrations and more

Elon Musk wants a ChatGPT rival, in talks with former DeepMind researcher

Elon Musk is recruiting Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who recently left Google's parent company Alphabet's AI unit, to develop an alternative to ChatGPT.

• The tech billionaire has approached AI (artificial intelligence) researchers in recent weeks to form a new research lab for it, the Information reported on February 27, citing people with direct knowledge of the effort.


• Musk and Babuschkin have discussed assembling a team to pursue AI research but the project is still in the early stages.

Meta plans to integrate generative AI into its products

Facebook parent Meta is streamlining its generative AI efforts across the company into a single product group that will focus on integrating the technology into all of its products.

• This product group will initially focus on building creative and expressive tools, and later look at developing "AI personas that can help people in a variety of ways," Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on February 27.


• "We have a lot of foundational work to do before getting to the really futuristic experiences, but I'm excited about all of the new things we'll build along the way," he said.

Snapchat wants a slice of the AI pie

Snapchat is jumping in on the AI craze with a customized chatbot of its own, called My AI.

• Snapchat is introducing the chatbot as an experimental feature for Snapchat+ subscribers.


• Snapchat+ is a subscription service that offers users experimental, pre-release or exclusive features for Rs 49 per month.


• Snapchat made it clear that My AI suffers from the same problems that other chatbots suffer from right now, namely, it is “prone to hallucination and can be tricked into saying just about anything”.