After a few months Trials during general electionsMeta is making its Llama-3-powered AI chatbot available to all users in India. However, Meta AI currently supports only English and no other local languages.
The company started testing Meta AI in India in April on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook and released it for select users. A few days later, the company officially announced that it was testing Meta AI. Rolled out the bot in more than a dozen countries, but not in India, possibly because At that time general elections were being held in the country,
In addition to making the chatbot available to all users through the search bar in its apps, Meta is also making this tool available through the search bar of its apps. meta.ai Website.
Meta AI’s functionality is similar to other chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Cloud. You can ask it to suggest recipes, plan workouts, help you write emails, or summarize lots of text.
In Instagram, the chatbot can suggest Reels to watch based on your search query. Additionally, on the Facebook feed, you’ll see Meta AI prompts so you can ask questions related to the post. For example, if you see a photo of the aurora borealis, you can ask Meta AI for suggestions about the best places and best times to see the northern lights.
Meta AI can also generate images based on your gestures. TechCrunch found in May that Meta AI has a strong trend Add a turban when creating an image of an Indian manThere were also other prejudices, such as the desire to consistently build old-fashioned Indian houses with vibrant colors, wooden columns and stylized roofs.
Although Meta said at the time that it was continually updating its models, it is unclear whether the company had made any changes in these areas.
“This is a new technology, and it may not always respond exactly as we would like, which is the same for all generative AI systems. Since launch, we have continuously released updates and improvements to our models, and we are continuing to work on improving them,” a spokesperson told TechCrunch at the time.
Meta is bringing its chatbot to India’s massive user base of 500 million WhatsApp users, as well as the hundreds of millions of users of its other apps. On WhatsApp, while you can chat with Meta AI individually, you can also take the chatbot’s help within group chats for things like planning a trip or deciding on a movie to watch.
The company said Meta AI doesn’t have the context of a group conversation beyond the text you use when mentioning or responding to the chatbot. The company improves its model based on your conversations with it.
Meta said it is not possible to turn off or hide the Meta AI functionality in its app. However, people can choose to engage in search without using the chatbot.
This rollout by the social media company comes a week after Google released its new feature. Gemini app for Android users in India supports nine local languages,
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