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Virtual Reality Yoga App Developer to Meta: I Worked Like ‘Hell’ Only to Get Burned
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Virtual Reality Yoga App Developer to Meta: I Worked Like ‘Hell’ Only to Get Burned

[ad_1] Andre Elijah created a virtual reality yoga app, with avatars of top instructors teaching various poses, as well as pilates and mindfulness — all of which users will never see, he alleged in a lawsuit, because Meta Platforms Inc. killed it just before launch time.Meta canceled Elijah's AEI Fitness app days before its unveiling at Meta Connect, the world's biggest VR conference, which he says would have propelled it to the top of the VR fitness app market, eventually reaping him tens of millions of dollars. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. “It was hell working on it, and we got there,” Elijah said in an interview, adding that the company made a “gorgeous” trailer for its presentation at the conference. But while preparing to be part of Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg...
Meta Brings Chatbots, Image Editing to Social Media Apps
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Meta Brings Chatbots, Image Editing to Social Media Apps

[ad_1] Meta Platforms Inc. is introducing artificial intelligence features to its apps that will give the company's 3 billion users an experience akin to OpenAI's ChatGPT.Customized sticker creation, image editing and a slew of celebrity-faced chatbot characters – all infused with generative AI – are coming to Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, the company said Wednesday at its annual Connect developers conference. Meta also introduced a developer studio for brands to build their own AI tools for the company's messaging services that can be used to chat with customers. It's a critical announcement for Meta, demonstrating that it, too, can build AI-based technology that generates text and images based on simple prompts from users. Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Snap Inc. and Microsoft Corp. hav...