The company believes AI-generated content is the future of social platforms. Meta is developing a standalone app for Vibes, its feed of AI-generated videos, according to reports from and . Vibes was introduced as a feature in the Meta AI app in September 2025. Similar to OpenAI's Sora app, Vibes lets users prompt Meta AI to create TikTok-style vertical videos. Following the strong early traction of Vibes within Meta AI, we are testing a standalone app to build on that momentum, Meta said in a statement.

Grok, the AI assistant that's for some reason baked into X, is now available as a standalone app. Like the version that exists as a tab on the social media platform, the Grok app can be used to generate images, summarize text and answer questions, with a conversational tone xAI, the AI assistant's creator, calls "humorous and engaging." The app was first tested with a limited set of users in December 2024, right around the same time X debuted a free tier of Grok that's available to anyone. Prior to that, you needed to pay at least 8 a month for X Premium to have the privilege of using the AI. The limitations of that free access -- 10 requests every two hours, three image analysis request per day -- may also apply to the Grok app.

Microsoft is rolling out Reading Coach as a standalone app, which will expand its tools for educators in Microsoft Teams. The new app will be part of its Reading Progress suite designed to help students improve literacy in the classroom and at home. The tool will use artificial intelligence to provide users with personalized feedback on how to improve reading scores as well as specific suggestions for how to improve things like pronunciation. It will be free to any users that have a Microsoft account. To keep students engaged, the program will also ask a reader to choose prompts that can change a storyline as they progress.

It first launched back in 2014 as a digital assistant on the Windows Phone. But if you're a fan of Microsoft's smart assistant, Cortana, we have some bad news for you. Microsoft has announced that it has officially ditched its standalone Cortana app for Windows 11. The tech giant explained the change in a blog post this week, highlighting that it'understands this may affect the way you work.' Here's what you need to know about the change and what it means for you. Cortana first launched on the Windows Phone back in 2014, before being added as a smart assistant in Windows 10, one year later.

ON1 has announced ON1 Resize AI, a new application that leverages the power of artificial intelligence to produce higher-quality, sharper photo enlargements than ON1's previous resizing software, including ON1 Resize, which is powered by Genuine Fractals. ON1 calls Resize AI'the biggest improvement in resize history.' ON1 Resize AI, which is available as standalone software or as a plugin, uses machine learning technology to recreate the details in your image that typically get lost during enlargement. When enlarging photos in other applications, the software uses interpolation to duplicate existing pixels to create the larger final image. In the demo video below, ON1 shows off its new Resize AI software and how its AI-based approach compares to traditional interpolation, including a bicubic interpolation method used to enlarge images in most photo apps, including Photoshop.

Google has made good on its promise to release a standalone Lens app in the Play Store. The feature is already integrated on most Android phones, and the app doesn't come with any new features, so really it just serves as a quick launch for the platform. It's only available on devices with Marshmallow and above, and already many users are reporting that it's not working properly on some devices, but hey, it's Lens. The feature, which lets you identify artwork, landmarks and even dogs, hasn't always lived up to its promise as a computer vision platform. However, Google has recently launched a load of cool new Lens features, such as text integration and Style Match, so at least the separate app means that everyone will be able to play with them.

Google Lens is now available as a standalone app -- allowing anybody the chance to use the all-seeing recognition software for the first time. Lens uses the smartphone camera to scan and identify real-world objects. It can recognise species of flower, translate menus in a foreign language, and add phone numbers from physical business cards into the contacts app on a phone. Until now, the feature was only available on smartphones that had been updated to include support for Lens within the native camera app. However, Google has now launched a standalone app in the Play Store, enabling anybody with an Android smartphone access to the AI recognition features.

We get a vague due date for Tesla's next big project, the Model Y, Google's voice assistant makes its way into thousands more smart devices and cheaters never prosper (and possibly go to jail) when it comes to Overwatch and Fortnite. Elon Musk says it'll spark a'manufacturing revolution'. Tesla's latest prediction for Model Y's arrival is 2020 Tesla's forthcoming Model Y is still shrouded in mystery. We know it's a crossover EV, and we know it might not have mirrors... and that's about it. But CEO Elon Musk has now revealed that the company aims to bring the new vehicle to production in 2020, adding in its conference call that doing so will spark a "manufacturing revolution".

There's a new chatbot in town, and it only wants to talk about mental health. Meet Woebot, now available to anyone via Facebook Messenger looking for some supportive talk to deal with anxiety or depression. Rather than augmenting a real therapist or even a non-clinical person, Woebot is wholly robotic; open to engage with an individual as often or as little as they want depending on their needs. San Francisco-based Woebot Labs created the tool –originally intended for college students but later expanded to all adults – based on cognitive behavioral therapy techniques. Anyone with Facebook Messenger can search for Woebot and begin sending messages, effectively bringing Woebot to life.

Microsoft's intelligent assistant, Cortana, is coming to iOS and Android devices, according to a Reuters report published today. But don't expect Siri to step aside right away. The Reuters report, based on interviews with Eric Horvitz, managing director of Microsoft Research, and unnamed sources, is frustratingly vague about the timeframe for the appearance of Cortana in standalone apps on non-Windows platforms. Horvitz told Reuters that technology from an artificial intelligence project codenamed Einstein, "will play a central role in the next roll out of Cortana, which we are working on now for the fall time frame." The standalone apps for iOS and Android are due "later," according to Reuters.