More from Everything announced at Meta Connect 2024
Zuckerberg says that Meta is experimenting with automatic video dubbing and lip-syncing on Reels so that your videos can reach people in more languages. We didn’t get a live video of this, but he showed a video onstage of Spanish Reels dubbed into English.
YouTube has been exploring auto-dubbing, too.
You’ll be able to video chat with a creator’s AI persona. I’ve tried this, and it’s wild. We’re getting a demo of it now onstage. The crowd is into it.
He says voice will be “one of if not the most frequent ways we interact with AI.”
One of the featured AI voices is that of actor Awkwafina. Zuckerberg asked AI Awkwafina if “live demos are risky” and it gave a natural-sounding response. (Yes, it is risky and potentially embarrassing.)
Meta AI has 500 million monthly active users already, according to Zuckerberg.
Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is wearing a shirt that says “Zuck or nothing” in Latin. Still with the Roman emperor thing, then. At least he left the chain at home.
That could be kind of useful, actually.
I still think it’s pretty bad, but people in the crowd seem to love it.
A person in the audience was wearing the Quest 3S to show off the passthrough, but the demo failed pretty quickly.
We’re live at Meta’s headquarters at Menlo Park, where Zuckerberg (sans gold chain) and his team are expected to announce new hardware and AI updates.
“We have a lot of stuff to show you,” he says. “A lot of the stuff we’ve been building for a long time — glasses, mixed reality, AI — is happening.”
You can follow along below for more news from the keynote.
As we kick off Meta’s flagship conference, I’m noticing an abundance of creators throwing up their peace signs and taking selfies in front of all the Meta signage — the campus makes for great content, too, since it looks like Disneyland. I’ve met an array of podcasters, TikTokers (Reel-ers?), and AR developers here already.
He’s on crutches but seems happy!
Alex Heath, Kylie Robison, and I are all at Meta’s Connect conference to cover the show.
Ahead of the 1PM ET keynote, you can catch up on what to expect.
