Viber, or Rakuten Viber, has launched a brand new synthetic intelligence (AI)-powered function for customers. The cross-platform on the spot messaging platform is providing a chat summarisation function that can permit customers to get up-to-date with unread messages with a short abstract utilizing AI. The function is being rolled out to pick out areas, and the corporate has revealed that it plans to increase it to extra areas quickly. Notably, Google affords the same function with its Gemini AI the place it permits customers to get Google Chat dialog summaries in Areas.
The announcement was made by Rakuten, the mother or father firm of Viber, through a press launch. The corporate revealed that the AI function is powered by OpenAI’s GPT fashions. The chat abstract function is at present solely accessible in group chats, and never in particular person conversations. The corporate mentioned, “The AI summarizer extracts a very powerful components of a person’s group conversations and, straight away, concisely conveys in bullet factors what has been mentioned.”
As per the corporate, the AI can summarise as much as 100 unread messages. When a person enters a gaggle chat with a number of unread messages, they are going to be prompted to obtain an non-obligatory abstract of the missed a part of the dialog. If the person clicks on the icon, the AI will ship a message with the important thing parts of the dialog conveyed in bullet factors. The corporate mentioned that this function will save customers’ time in scrolling as much as undergo a number of messages to grasp the context of the scenario. It should additionally assist in not lacking any necessary conversations.
To guard privateness, the function won’t embody any identifiers in its abstract past usernames. Because of this, particular conversations can’t be externally related to any group members. The corporate additionally reassured that Viber doesn’t entry or save conversations or summaries on its servers, guaranteeing the privateness and knowledge safety of customers. For reference, this function works equally to the dialog abstract function in Google Chat in Areas, which was launched final yr.
At the moment, the function is being rolled out to the US, the Philippines, Ukraine, Japan, Bulgaria, and Poland. The corporate mentioned extra international locations and areas will get the function quickly. The AI chat abstract function is offered on each Android and iOS and helps greater than 50 languages.
