Facebook’s personal assistant experiment just got the ax before ever reaching a wide audience. Facebook recently confirmed that the beta version Facebook M will be discontinued on January 19, though ...

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It's official: Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is shuttering its virtual assistant, M. Launched in 2015, M was the company's response to the growing trend of virtual assistants. Facebook had hoped that M would ...

It looks like Facebook is bringing a little more artificial intelligence to Messenger. While the “M” virtual assistant hasn’t enjoyed a very wide rollout just yet, Facebook is testing a new feature ...

Facebook plans to deliver more than just social updates and photos with Facebook M, a new addition to Facebook Messenger that will take on personal assistant tools like Apple’s Siri, Google Now and ...

A virtual assistant feature incorporated into Facebook Messenger in 2015. Using human operators as well, M was created to find information, book travel and make reservations and suggestions. By 2018, ...

Facebook is in a strong position in the digital assistant race Digital assistants like Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Now all share one key thing in common: the more they know about you, ...

Facebook's test release today of a digital assistant inside its Messenger app is a shot across the bow of the Internet's biggest companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.com. It's also the ...

Move over Siri and Cortana, there’s a new digital sidekick in town: M, Facebook’s latest project. Nested inside Messenger, Facebook’s messaging app, M is an artificial intelligence-based service the ...

Facebook has revealed a new artificial intelligence robot, which sits in Messenger and chats to people and helps them buy things. The new service, called M, allows Facebook users to ask it questions ...