Continuation by Bill Mitchell:

Wow, straight to the name calling. No need to get hostile, but to answer your question - one doesn't have to be a genius to figure out the road map especially when the president has already tipped their hat as how they operated in the past. Signal went from a text message to a social app.

If the trend then becomes leveraging LLM on some level in messaging apps then that's where Signal will pivot to. Telegram one of its chief rivals was flirting with Grok. Meta which has three apps on the market has Llama integration. I have the benefit of heighten pattern recognition.

So yes, I do think I have a better insight than the president of the company. I'll wait while you try to remind me that Signal is non-profit, and I retort with something clever like "And how do you developers feed themselves".
Continuation by Bill Mitchell: Wow, straight to the name calling. No need to get hostile, but to answer your question - one doesn't have to be a genius to figure out the road map especially when the president has already tipped their hat as how they operated in the past. Signal went from a text message to a social app. If the trend then becomes leveraging LLM on some level in messaging apps then that's where Signal will pivot to. Telegram one of its chief rivals was flirting with Grok. Meta which has three apps on the market has Llama integration. I have the benefit of heighten pattern recognition. So yes, I do think I have a better insight than the president of the company. I'll wait while you try to remind me that Signal is non-profit, and I retort with something clever like "And how do you developers feed themselves".
Screenshot of a conversation on Bluesky:

Bill Mitchell (@askbillmitchell.bsky.social · 20h):
“Signal will some sort of LLM integration in it soon.”

Meredith Whittaker (@meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 11h):
“No ❤️”

Bill Mitchell (@askbillmitchell.bsky.social · 6h):
“They will, likely be timing up with Anthropic's Claude or Perplexity, but its coming. The engineers have already began laying out the ground work for such support.”

Meredith Whittaker (@meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5h):
“…he says to Signal's president”
Screenshot of a conversation on Bluesky: Bill Mitchell (@askbillmitchell.bsky.social · 20h): “Signal will some sort of LLM integration in it soon.” Meredith Whittaker (@meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 11h): “No ❤️” Bill Mitchell (@askbillmitchell.bsky.social · 6h): “They will, likely be timing up with Anthropic's Claude or Perplexity, but its coming. The engineers have already began laying out the ground work for such support.” Meredith Whittaker (@meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5h): “…he says to Signal's president”