Meta is expanding access to Pocket, its experimental vibe-coding app that generates small, shareable games from AI prompts. After a quiet test in Brazil last month, the company began rolling the app out to all users in the U.S.
How Pocket works
Pocket lets users create short interactive experiences Meta calls “gizmos.” These gizmos can respond to touch and phone tilt, include sound effects and clips of songs, and incorporate photos from the device or live camera input. Generated creations are published to a scrollable feed and can be posted to a user profile where others may save, remix or repost them.
The app builds on Meta’s acqui-hire of the team behind the vibe-coded gaming platform Gizmo earlier this year. With Pocket’s launch, Meta is shutting down the original app it acquired from Atma Sciences.
Position within Meta’s AI push
Pocket joins a string of standalone mobile experiments from Meta that leverage AI to create content. Recent releases include the Meta AI app for image generation, an experimental video app called Vibes, Instagram Instants, a stand-alone Groups app named Forum, and a separate Marketplace app called Seller. Meta has also tested an AI bedtime-stories experiment and released a Meta AI app for Mac.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has attributed the faster cadence of new products to AI-enabled software development. On a July earnings call he said that AI tools have made it quicker to test and ship ideas and indicated plans to use recommendation systems to scale new apps.
Pocket’s rollout expands Meta’s effort to mainstream AI creation tools on mobile while consolidating earlier technology from the Gizmo and Atma Sciences acquisitions. The U.S. launch is the first broad release following the Brazil test.
Original source: TechCrunch AI