Meta putting AI in digital assistants, smart glasses

Latest offering: Zuckerberg at the Meta Connect event. The second-generation Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses made in a partnership with EssilorLuxottica will have a starting price of US$299 when they hit the market on Oct 17. — Bloomberg

NEW YORK: Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg says the tech giant is putting artificial intelligence (AI) into digital assistants and smart glasses as it seeks to gain lost ground in the AI race.

Zuckerberg made his announcements at the Connect developers conference at Meta’s headquarters in Silicon Valley, the company’s main annual product event.