WordPress.com launches a free AI-powered website builder

Hosting platform WordPress.com on Wednesday launched a new AI website builder that allows anyone to create a functioning website using an AI chat-style interface. The feature, which is being made available to WordPress users for free, is targeted at entrepreneurs, freelancers, bloggers, and others who need a professional online presence, the company says. At this time, the AI builder is not capable of creating more advanced websites like those needed for e-commerce stores or others with complex integrations, however. While AI-powered website builders are no longer new, the addition is designed to help WordPress better compete with companies like Squarespace and Wix, which offer AI builders to speed up site creation and design. But like most of these builders today, more advanced website edits and layouts will still require an understanding of using website development and design tools. In time, that could change as the AI learns from the edits users make to their sites after the init ... Read full article.