Meta AI app climbs to No. 5 on the App Store after Muse Spark launch

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Meta’s AI app has seen a sizable leap successful installs pursuing Wednesday’s motorboat of the company’s newest AI model, Muse Spark — its archetypal exemplary merchandise nether Alexandr Wang, the caput of Meta’s Superintelligence Labs who was recruited from Scale AI past twelvemonth to overhaul the societal giant’s AI efforts.

According to caller information from marketplace quality supplier Appfigures, user request for the Meta AI app has pushed the app up from No. 57 close earlier the motorboat of Muse Spark connected Wednesday to No. 5 connected the U.S App Store connected Thursday — a determination suggesting a flood of caller installs.

Meta says its caller AI model, which is disposable connected some the web and mobile, is simply a important upgrade implicit its earlier Llama 4 models. It’s besides the company’s latest effort to drawback up to rivals similar OpenAI and Anthropic, an effort that’s already outgo Meta billions successful recruiting AI talent, successful summation to its $14.3 billion-dollar investment successful Scale AI.

Currently, Muse Spark accepts multimodal input, including voice, text, and images, and has been designed to execute good connected a fig of tasks, similar helping radical larn astir their wellness and reasoning done analyzable questions successful areas similar subject and math. It tin besides assistance successful ocular coding, letting users make websites and mini-games from prompts.

Plus, Meta AI is capable to motorboat aggregate subagents to grip users’ questions, the company said.

The exemplary volition rotation retired to different platforms, including WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and Meta’s AI glasses, successful the weeks ahead.

Alongside the model’s launch, the Meta AI mobile app and website were upgraded with a caller look and feel, and present let users to power betwixt modes depending connected the task.

Despite the caller growth, Meta AI’s app for present inactive lags down the AI chatbots from different apical exemplary makers, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT (No. 1), Anthropic’s Claude (No. 2), and Google’s Gemini (No. 3).

Wang pointed to the caller precocious fertile successful a post connected X earlier Thursday, and helium noted that the app is “still growing.”

Appfigures information indicates that Meta AI’s app has been installed a full of 60.5 cardinal times worldwide crossed some the App Store and Google Play, with 25 cardinal of those downloads occurring conscionable this year.

Over the past 5 months, Meta AI app downloads person accrued by 138% erstwhile compared with the archetypal 5 months of the app’s availability.

India is present Meta AI’s apical marketplace by downloads, followed by the U.S., Brazil, Pakistan, and Mexico, according to Appfigures.