We have been reading reports about Facebook’s rumoured digital assistant codenamed Moneypenny. But, now we’ve got more details about Facebook’s new service that challenges Apple, Microsoft and Google’s personal assistants. In a Facebook post, Facebook Messenger head David Marcus introduced the new service called M.

"We’re beginning to test a new service called M. M is a personal digital assistant inside of Messenger that completes tasks and finds information on your behalf. It’s powered by artificial intelligence that’s trained and supervised by people."

Facebook says that M is very different from the other digital assistance services in the market as it actually completes the services on your behalf. With M, you can buy items, get your gifts delivered, book hotels and restaurants, check appointments and flights and a lot more.


Now, Facebook is ready to challenge Google’s Google Now, Microsoft’s Cortana and Apple’s Siri. Using your massive amount of data, Facebook is expected to push you services in a more personalized manner.This rollout is slow and a few hundred users will be seeing M in their Messenger for the time being. Stay tuned for more updates.