Meta AI can summarize your unread WhatsApp messages now - how to try it

Meta is introducing a new AI-powered feature into WhatsApp designed to summarize unread messages.

The feature, called Message Summaries, was announced Wednesday in a WhatsApp company blog post. Message Summaries leverages Meta AI to provide brief, bulleted lists outlining key points from a message chain on the social messaging app. It's built upon Meta's Private Processing technology, which means the summaries are conveyed privately to users without any of the information being shared with Meta or WhatsApp. 

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Message Summaries appear at the top of WhatsApp message chains as a small, rectangular icon listing the number of unread messages in the chat. Simply tap the icon, and Meta AI will generate a bulleted list of high-level key points extracted from the messages.

The feature is intended to provide users ...