Facebook is developing its own AI-based voice assistant as it seeks to compete with rivals such as Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri. The company is working to build voice and AI assistant technologies that could work across its AR/VR products such as Oculus and Portal, the latter of which currently uses Alexa to power voice recognition on its video chat speakers. The revelation comes only a year after Facebook dropped its M chat assistant after lack of uptake by users.
Facebook is developing its own AI-based voice assistant as it seeks to compete with rivals such as Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri. The company is working to build voice and AI assistant technologies that could work across its AR/VR products such as Oculus and Portal, the latter of which currently uses Alexa to power voice recognition on its video chat speakers. The revelation comes just a year after Facebook dropped its M chat assistant after lack of uptake by users.