Meta product chief says Llama 4 will power AI agents

Meta chief product officer Chris Cox stated Wednesday that the social networking large’s upcoming Llama 4 synthetic intelligence software program will assist energy AI brokers, the latest trend in generative AI.

Cox mentioned the subsequent model of Meta’s open-source AI software for developers throughout a public interview at Morgan Stanley’s know-how, media and telecom convention in San Francisco. AI brokers are usually outlined by their potential to conduct multi-step duties as an alternative of producing responses to written prompts, and Cox stated within the interview that Llama 4 can have reasoning capabilities and create AI brokers able to utilizing an internet browser and different instruments.

Later in the course of the interview, Cox described how extra superior AI fashions can be utilized to underpin AI brokers to allow them to full particular business-related duties, comparable to mechanically submitting receipts.

“I imply, how a lot time will we spend typing in issues from a picture we’re taking a look at into a pc? Rather a lot,” Cox stated. “Having it perceive all of them mechanically is a large deal from a friction perspective.”

His feedback observe comparable statements made by Clara Shih, Meta’s head of enterprise AI, who advised CNBC’s Julia Boorstin Wednesday that the corporate believes extra companies will use AI brokers to automate advanced duties.

“We have already got these trusted relationships with 200 million small companies world wide,” Shih stated. “Very quickly, every of these companies are going to have these AIs that characterize them and assist automate redundant duties, assist communicate of their voice, assist them discover extra clients and supply nearly like a concierge service to each single one in all their clients, 24/7.”

Meta will host its first LlamaCon AI convention on April 29.

Final week, CNBC reported that the social networking firm will debut a standalone Meta AI app in the course of the second quarter.