If you regularly converse with artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, it might seem like a natural move to talk to them inside your favorite messaging app. Well, you’ve just gained a new option, as you’re now able to chat with Perplexity AI directly within WhatsApp.

As Meta’s first-ever generative AI conference gets underway, the company is also previewing a significant update on its plans to bring AI features to WhatsApp chats. Buried in its LlamaCon updates, the company shared that it’s working on something called “Private Processing,

Meta is launching cloud-based AI tools on WhatsApp, including message summarisation and writing suggestions, processed via a privacy-focused system called Private Processing. This ensures that AI tasks are handled securely in the cloud without Meta accessing user data.