Meta appears to be preparing a sizable expansion of Meta AI on the web, with three new modes spotted in development that would push the assistant well beyond chat.
The first, Deep Research, looks set to mirror the long-form research tools already shipping from rival labs. This mode will send the model out to search the open web, pull from multiple sources, and return a structured summary. It is not yet fully operational in testing, which makes direct comparison hard, but it stands apart from the Contemplating mode Meta rolled out earlier this year. Contemplating mode leans on Muse Spark to reason across many parallel agents for its hardest queries.
The second mode, Presentation, generates a slide deck as a shareable artifact that can be previewed inline or in a side panel and shared via a link. This mode is already operational, and the output is solid, which tracks that Muse Spark has handled deck generation capably before. It would drop Meta into a crowded field alongside Gamma, Manus, and Claude, and would serve anyone assembling decks under time pressure, where the bar for AI-built slides has climbed sharply over the past year.
The third, Social, is the most distinctive. Using suggested prompts, it pulls posts from your friends and circle across Instagram, Threads, and Facebook by firing multiple background agents simultaneously. In testing, it surfaced posts from all three platforms, though it currently returns unfamiliar profiles rather than an actual network, a sign that it remains unfinished. The clear parallel is Grok, whose tie-in to X has become its calling card; Social would be Meta's answer, and the people most likely to reach for it are those tracking their circles across apps.
That social graph is the through-line for Meta's wider AI strategy. Having built its assistant into Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and a standalone app, the company has leaned on personal context as its point of difference from OpenAI and Google. Research and presentation tools close obvious gaps in the lineup, but Social is the piece that only Meta is positioned to build. All three remain in progress, arriving on the web first, with mobile the likely next stop.
