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Meta AI April 2024 to Current Distribution Record

Meta AI is an assistant product. Its model, product surface, account context, data access, and action authority have changed since E013.

Aug 4, 20262 min readBy Dalton Anderson

Meta AI April 2024 to Current Distribution Record

Meta AI is an assistant product. Its model, product surface, account context, data access, and action authority have changed since E013.

Meta’s April 2024 announcement described a Llama 3-powered assistant across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and meta.ai, with rollout and regional limits. It also described image generation and assistant use inside conversations.

Meta launched a standalone Meta AI app in April 2025. The first version used Llama 4 and added voice, personalization, a Discover feed, web continuity, and the companion role previously served by Meta View for AI glasses.

In April 2026, Meta introduced Muse Spark as a product-focused model powering the app and website, with wider rollout across social, messaging, and glasses surfaces. The announcement later added voice, live camera, shopping, and multi-agent product behavior.

In July 2026, Meta said Muse Spark 1.1 could support plans, recurring work, research, slides, and selected email and calendar connections in supported markets. These capabilities are later product history. They do not prove that E013 or Llama 3 shipped an autonomous agent.

Meta’s generative AI privacy guide describes its collection of generative features and directs users to current controls and terms. Product evaluation must still identify the exact surface, region, account, model, input, personalization, retention, connector, action, and deletion path.

Dalton’s April 2024 observations about tone, refusals, setup help, and image speed remain dated first-person experience. They are not a current comparison.

Sources

Follow the evidence.

  1. Introducing Llama 3.1ai.meta.com
  2. Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understandingarxiv.org
  3. YouTube episodeyoutu.be
  4. Introducing Muse Sparkabout.fb.com
  5. HELM MMLU recordcrfm.stanford.edu
  6. Introducing Our Open Mixed Reality Ecosystemabout.fb.com
  7. Muse Spark 1.1 action featuresabout.fb.com
  8. Android Open Source Projectsource.android.com
  9. Meta Llama 3 Community Licensegithub.com
  10. Meta Quest 3S announcementabout.fb.com
  11. NIST AI Risk Management Frameworknist.gov
  12. Meta company informationabout.meta.com
  13. Meta's Llama license is still not Open Sourceopensource.org
  14. MMLU implementation repositorygithub.com
  15. Introducing the Meta AI appabout.fb.com
  16. Meta Llama models repositorygithub.com
  17. MMLU-Proarxiv.org
  18. NIST Generative AI Profilenvlpubs.nist.gov
  19. Meta Llama 3 model cardgithub.com
  20. Meta 2025 full-year resultsinvestor.atmeta.com
  21. Meet Your New Assistant: Meta AIabout.fb.com
  22. Meta Horizon OS developer documentationdevelopers.meta.com
  23. Spotify episodeopen.spotify.com
  24. Meta generative AI privacy guidefacebook.com
  25. Introducing Meta Llama 3ai.meta.com
Meta AI April 2024 to Current Distribution Record