Meta Chatbot brings from artificial intelligence to Europe almost a year after it turns off in the region. Starting this week, Meta AI will be published via WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Messenger in 41 European countries and 21 external regions-but will be limited to the features of the text-based chat at the present time.
Amnesty International dead It was launched in the United States in 2023. While the company intended to bring the assistant to Europe, Meta I had to stop the operation In the region that followed, the Ireland Privacy Control Authority requested to delay the content training of Facebook and Instagram users. also Stop the launch From the European Union’s multimedia model due to organizational concerns.
Currently, Meta says her AI assistant will only act as a chat for users in Europe, or help to storm ideas, plan a trip, or answer specific questions using web information. European users will also be able to use Meta AI to surface certain types of content on their Instagram extract. However, they cannot use the tool to do things like Create or edit photosAnd also asking questions about a picture. The model is not trained in European Union user data as well.
“This launch follows nearly a year of intense participation with various European organizers, and at the present time we only offer a model for text in the region that has not been trained on the data of the first party of the European Union users,” she told a Meta Ellie Heatrick spokesperson freedom. “We will continue to work cooperatively with the organizers so that people in Europe can access innovations from artificial intelligence in Meta that are already available for the rest of the world.”
Last November, Mita started bringing some One of the AI’s features of its smart glasses in the European Union, but the glasses currently do not support multimedia features that allow users to ask Meta AI about what they can see. Meta does not seem to give up plans to provide more features to the European version of Meta Ai, where the company says it will work to “find parity with the United States and expand our offer over time.”
