Meta Launches Metamate: An Internal AI Assistant

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On 20 August 2024, Soumith Chintala, Meta’s AI lead, announced a new generative AI product, Metamate, to enhance the company’s productivity.

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Introducing Metamate, a new GenAI application

Soumith, along with Zach Rait and Aparna Ramani, developed Metamate to solve the unique needs of large organizations and handle multiple workflows.

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Addressing unique requirements of large organizations

Metamate extends Perplexity AI’s features, enabling users to build custom agents directly in a web browser using Python or any other scripting language.

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Developing custom agents using Python

Metamate offers numerous features, such as a document summarizer, information retriever, data visualizer, and work recaps, enabling a team to manage performance-related tasks.

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Offering multiple features in a single product

This product is only available for Meta employees to use. Esther Crawford, director of Product at Meta, stated, “It’s an AI for employees that’s trained on an enormous corpus of internal company docs.”

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Functionality only limited to Meta employees

Metamate is being integrated with machine learning models to boost its performance for various internal teams within Meta.

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Integration of machine learning to enhance performance