Meta ai is starting a big international ai-is-now-multilingual-more-creative-and-smarter/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:rollout;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>launch. The ai assistant will arrive today in Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Paraguay, the Philippines and the United Kingdom. It is also scheduled to debut in Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and Yemen in the coming weeks, although the company did not offer specific dates. for those countries.
This expansion also adds new language support to Meta ai. Starting today, you will receive support for Tagalog, while Arabic, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese will join the assistant “soon.” Customers can use the Meta ai assistant on the web or within the company's social media applications: facebook, instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.
The final element of today's announcement is that Meta ai will launch on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in the UK and Australia. The UK launch will only include voice support for now; Meta did not provide a timeline for when UK customers would be able to get the full multi-modal capabilities of the glasses.
The EU is a notable absence in this expansion. Meta said this summer that it would not introduce multimodal ai services in the EU due to concerns about regulation in the bloc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been ai-zuckerberg-ek/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:public;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>public with criticism of how European regulators are handling the proliferation of artificial intelligence.