San Francisco, June 12: Meta is reportedly rolling out the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot 'Metamate' to its employees, which is trained on internal data.

The new AI chatbot utilises company data to help employees summarise meetings, write code and debug features and reports The Verge. Sanely Run: Meta ‘Talking’ to Oprah Winfrey, the Dalai Lama To Explore Its Twitter-Like App for Users.

The company is currently rolling out this tool internally to a small group. When considering how to power the chatbot, Meta had discussions with Microsoft and OpenAI, but it decided to employ a separate, in-house model.

In February this year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company was creating a new "top-level" product team which would be "focused" on generative AI.

He explained that in the short term, the company would focus on building creative and expressive tools. And, over the longer term, the company would develop "AI personas" which will help users in a variety of ways. WhatsApp Feature Update: Meta-Owned Messaging Platform Rolling Out Redesigned Emoji Keyboard on Android Beta for Users.

Last week, it was reported that Meta-owned Instagram was working on a feature that would let users chat with AI within the app.

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