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Early last month, we reported that Meta was working on "Pocket," a TikTok-style app that lets users vibe-code short interactive mini-games and toy apps, or "gizmos," as Meta calls them, that they can then upload for other users to play
Pocket is now live in the US, and Atma Sciences, the company whose team Meta absorbed after it bought a non-exclusive license for its technology in March 2026, is winding down Gizmo, the original standalone app that Pocket is based on.
Meta won't let you create a Pocket profile without creating a Meta account first. There's also no way to delete your profile without deleting your Meta account entirely. Creating a "gizmo" on Pocket is as simple as opening the app, tapping the Create button at the bottom of your screen, and typing out what you want to build (the more specific you are with your prompt, the better). After the AI generates the game, you choose whether to allow other users to play and remix it.
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We found a Meta support page that lists out different ways to interact with Pocket's gizmos, including tapping, swiping, or dragging items on your screen, tilting or shaking your device to control physical movement, playing custom music and sound effects, capturing real-time media with your camera, and speaking into your microphone. The company also said that it will use your interactions with AIs and gizmo activities across its platforms to improve its AI.
Meta's Generative AI output has been quite wonky, at least compared to the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI. To catch up, the company recently released Muse Code, its own take on Claude Code, powered by its new coding-focused model, Muse Spark 1.2.
Alongside the new AI coding agent, Meta introduced a "Contributor Tier" that slashes the API price down to a staggering $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $4.25 per 1M output tokens (~20x cheaper than its competitors). The catch for anyone who chooses this ultra-cheap tier is that developers must give Meta explicit permission to ingest their proprietary codebase, prompts, and outputs to train Meta's future AI models.
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