Meta Launches AI App to Compete with OpenAI, Google

At its first developer conference, LlamaCon 2025, Meta unveiled a standalone Meta AI app powered by Llama 4 and introduced a new Llama API, underscoring its intent to compete directly with OpenAI and Google in the AI space. The Meta AI app, now available beyond social platforms, leverages Meta’s ecosystem and is part of a broader strategy that includes possible premium subscriptions and integration with Meta's hardware. Meta continues to champion open-source AI, facilitating developers’ ability to mix and match models for optimal results. Meanwhile, major tech companies including Microsoft and Google are increasingly relying on AI to write significant portions of their code, with Meta projecting that AI could soon handle half of its development work. This surge in AI adoption is reshaping engineering practices, increasing productivity, and prompting companies like Salesforce and Stripe to adjust hiring plans. The heightened competition in AI also coincides with shifting alliances, as Microsoft, once closely aligned with OpenAI, is now diversifying its own AI tools and exploring partnerships beyond OpenAI.