Meta’s experimental vibe-coding gaming app,Pocket, is now rolling out to everyone in the U.S. The app, whicharrived quietly last monthin the test market of Brazil, allows people to generate small, interactive games using AI prompts, which are published to a scrollable feed.
Based on Meta’sacqui-hireof the team at thevibe-coded gaming platform Gizmoearlier this year, these games — or “gizmos” as they’re called — respond to touch and the tilt of your phone, play sound effects, and can include clips of your favorite songs.
The app is the latest example of Meta’s push to make AI creation tools mainstream, following its earlier efforts that included making AI-generated images withits Meta AI appas well as AI videos created withan experimental app called Vibes.
Pocket now joins these and several other standalone mobile applications from Meta in recent months. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has credited the increased output to AI-enabled software development, which makes it faster for the company to test and ship new ideas.
“Earlier this year, we shipped Instagram Instants. We also just launched Forum, a stand-alone Groups app, and Seller, a stand-alone Marketplace app. I expect it to become a lot easier to ship new apps,” he told analysts on July’s earnings call. “So we are planning to build out more ideas and use our recommendation systems to scale them.”
In addition toInstants,Forum, and the Seller app, Meta has shipped an experiment involving AI bedtime stories, and this week, aMeta AI app for Mac.
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