Facebook parent Meta Platforms on Tuesday launched a separate app for its Meta AI assistant, similar to those offered by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet's Google.

The standalone app comes as Meta looks to boost the AI assistant's usage, apart from being available within the company's family of social platforms.

Meta Platforms on Tuesday (April 29) announced a new standalone AI assistant and an application programming interface in a bid to woo businesses to more easily build AI products using its Llama artificial-intelligence models.