Meta is launching its AI chatbot Meta AI in six nations today, including Brazil, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Paraguay, Mark Zuckerberg announced on his WhatsApp channel.
This extension also brings new language support to Meta AI. Tagalog support begins today, with Arabic, Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese to follow “soon.”
Customers can utilise the Meta AI assistant on the company’s website or through its social media platforms, which include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
Following the slow rollout, the business said that the chatbot would be available in 43 countries and a dozen languages, putting it on course to become the world’s most popular AI assistant by the end of 2024.
The most recent expansion will not include the new character voices for the AI chatbot, which Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed at the company’s annual Connect conference. The corporation stated that they will be rolled out on a separate timeframe.
The third aspect of today’s announcement is that Meta AI will be available on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in the United Kingdom and Australia.
For the time being, the UK launch will only provide speech support; Meta did not specify a date for when UK users will be able to use the glasses with full multimodal capabilities.
The EU is noticeably absent from this expansion. This summer, Meta said that it would not provide multimodal AI services in the EU due to regulatory issues.
Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Thailand, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, and Yemen are among the countries set to benefit from the impending rollout.
Meta AI will also begin to support Arabic, Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese languages before the end of this release cycle.
The AI assistant is available on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and the Meta.ai website.
We earlier reported that Meta intends to produce virtual reality headsets in Vietnam beginning in 2025, the two sides announced following a meeting that also discussed censorship and artificial intelligence.
