Meta has a new app called Pocket that is absolutely nothing like the old Pocket

Mozilla unopen down the well-loved read-it-later Pocket app past year, and now Meta is launching an app called Pocket pinch an wholly different, AI-focused pitch: this caller app lets you make and stock small interactive “gizmos” built from an AI prompt, as reported by Business Insider.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is all successful connected AI arsenic the caller societal media, and he’s antecedently described a imagination of really users could usage AI to make interactive experiences and stock them pinch people. The motorboat of Pocket appears to beryllium 1 manifestation of that idea, and it follows Meta hiring engineers from a institution called Atma Sciences Inc., which made an app called Gizmo, as Business Insider reported successful March. Meta sewage a non-exclusive licence to usage the company’s technology, and based connected screenshots of Pocket connected Google Play, the app looks to beryllium beautiful akin to Gizmo.

“Scroll a provender of gizmos from group astir the world,” Meta says successful Pocket’s Google Play description. “Gizmos respond to your touch and the tilt of your phone. They play sound effects and your favourite songs. They tin usage your camera aliases propulsion successful photos from your camera roll. Some tin moreover logic astir the world astir them.” On a help halfway page, Meta besides describes a gizmo arsenic a “playable AI-generated experience,” and erstwhile you station one, Meta says you tin take to fto different group remix them.

However, if you’re successful the US, it doesn’t look for illustration you tin download Pocket conscionable yet. Two US-based Verge staffers saw a statement connected the Google Play listing that said the app “isn’t disposable successful your country.” I can’t find the app connected Apple’s US App Store. Meta besides notes successful its thief halfway that the app is “not yet disposable everywhere.” The institution didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.