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Meta Quietly Launches Pocket, an AI App for Mini Games
Meta has quietly launched Pocket, a mobile app that lets users create small interactive games from text prompts and share them in a short-form feed.
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Meta has quietly launched Pocket, a mobile app that lets users create small interactive games from text prompts and share them in a short-form feed.
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