In an announcement on his WhatsApp channel today, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is offering its AI chatbot, MetaAI, to six countries including Brazil, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Paraguay. .
Beyond these countries, the company said it plans to gradually release Meta AI in more countries, including the Middle East. After this rollout, Meta AI will be available in 43 countries and over a dozen languages.
Future expansions include regions such as Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, and Yemen. Meta AI also plans to launch support for Arabic, Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese by the end of this release cycle.
The AI assistant is available on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger apps, and the Meta.ai website.
At last month's MetaConnect event, Zuckerberg said MetaAI now has “almost” 500 million users worldwide. He added that chatbots are on track to become the world's most used assistants by the end of the year.
Meta CFO Susan Lee said on the Q2 2024 conference call that India is Meta AI's largest market, thanks to WhatsApp, which has over 500 million users in the country. He said there is.
Last month, the company added features to Meta AI, including new celebrity voices and lip-sync translation. The company also expanded its AI-powered Imagine feature to Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, allowing users to create photos through natural language prompts. Additionally, Meta AI can understand your photos, provide answers about them, and even edit them.