Meta has launched an app called Pocket, a direct naming collision with Mozilla's shuttered read-it-later service. The new Pocket has nothing to do with saving articles. It lets users generate and share small interactive experiences, called gizmos, from AI prompts.
This is Mark Zuckerberg's stated vision made concrete: AI as the next social layer, where users create and distribute interactive content instead of just posts. Meta's foundation for this includes engineers hired from Atma Sciences Inc., the company behind an app called Gizmo, which signals this is not an experimental side project.
The full story at The Verge details the Atma Sciences acquisition pipeline and how Pocket fits into Meta's broader AI social strategy. The naming choice alone raises questions worth reading about.
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