Meta launches new Pocket app, unrelated to old service
▼ Summary
– Meta launched a new app called Pocket, which allows users to create and share small interactive “gizmos” built from an AI prompt.
– The app follows Mozilla shutting down its read-it-later Pocket app last year.
– Pocket is part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for AI as the new form of social media, where users make interactive experiences to share.
– Meta hired engineers from Atma Sciences Inc., which previously made an app called Gizmo.
Meta has introduced a new app called Pocket, but this version has nothing to do with the old read-it-later service that Mozilla shut down last year. Instead, the tech giant is betting on AI-powered creativity, offering users a platform to build and share small, interactive “gizmos” generated from a simple text prompt.
The move aligns with CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s broader vision of AI as the next frontier of social media. He has previously outlined a future where users can craft personalized, interactive experiences and easily distribute them to friends and followers. Pocket appears to be a direct step in that direction, turning abstract ideas into tangible, shareable digital toys.
To bring this concept to life, Meta has brought on engineers from Atma Sciences Inc., a company behind a similar app called Gizmo. This hiring spree signals a serious commitment to making AI-generated content a core part of Meta’s ecosystem. The new Pocket app essentially repurposes the familiar name for a completely different purpose, one centered on user-driven AI creation rather than saving articles for later reading.
(Source: The Verge)
