

The chatbot was first rolled out to users who pay $3.99 a month for the company's premium subscription Snapchat+. My AI is now available free to all Snapchat users and can be invoked to respond to questions in conversations between friends on Snapchat, Snap said on Wednesday.

Snap's chatbot, called My AI, which can help users with everything from writing poems to searching for information, was built using startup OpenAI's ChatGPT technology. Generative AI has captured the tech industry's focus in recent months and can generate original text or photos in response to prompts. The company aims to use the technology to speed up its development of augmented reality (AR) features, or computerized images overlayed on top of photos and videos of the real world. The announcement came at Snap's annual Partner Summit. April 19 (Reuters) - Snap Inc (SNAP.N) on Wednesday said its artificial intelligence chatbot will now be able to respond to users' messages with a fully AI-generated image, as the owner of photo messaging app Snapchat deepens its work in AI technology.
