Meta is introducing a new private mode for its AI chatbot and says it's so private that not even the company will be able to see what you talk about. You'll be able to create these private chats in WhatsApp or the standalone Meta AI app as the feature rolls out in the coming months, Meta said Wednesday.

Other chatbots, including Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, have private modes. But those are temporary chats, which disappear after a certain number of hours, and they're still viewable by the company that runs the chatbot. Meta says that this won't be the case for its incognito mode.

"Your messages are processed in a secure environment that even Meta cannot access.…