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Meta AI Can Now 'Remember' What You Tell It Across Apps

Meta AI will curate responses based on the information you've supplied across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, but you can delete that data.

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Meta is rolling out updates to its Meta AI chatbot that will enable it to "remember" things about you and offer more personalized recommendations. 

The first of two features announced this week is “Memory.” As the name suggests, it “lets Meta AI remember certain details that you share with it in 1:1 chats” and use the information to show more useful and relevant responses in the future. 

For example, if you ask Meta AI for recipes and it suggests ingredients you don’t consume, you can let the chatbot know your dietary preferences. It will then update its “Memory” and tailor future responses accordingly. 

Meta AI maintains a record of your key preferences, which gets updated every time you let it know something about yourself. Meta says the chatbot will “only remember certain things you tell it in 1:1 conversations (not group chats), and you can delete its memories at any time.”

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To delete Memory on Messenger, tap the information bubble on the top right in your chat with Meta AI, tap Memory, and choose what you want to delete. On Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, it appears you can also use the "/reset-ai" command.

After making “Memory” available to a limited number of users last year, Meta is now rolling it out on Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp for iOS and Android users in the US and Canada. Rivals Google and OpenAI already have similar memory features on their chatbots, Gemini and ChatGPT, respectively.

To improve Meta AI’s recommendations further, Meta will also let it monitor your activity on Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram.

Suppose you ask Meta AI for recommendations on weekend activities. In that case, it will fetch your location from Facebook, check the Instagram Reels you have viewed recently, and access family details from “Memory” to create a tailor-made weekend plan. This update is being made available to all Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram users in the US and Canada.

Meta's announcement comes after Chinese company DeepSeek's AI assistant app crashed the US' AI party and became the most downloaded free app on the Apple App Store this weekend. For more, check out how DeepSeek compares to ChatGPT.

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