Meta Ai Finally arrived in Europe Thursday, eight months after the owner of Facebook announced that he delay the launch of the artificial intelligence tool due to regulatory problems.
In addition to 41 European countries, Meta IA will also take place in 21 territories abroad, to date the most important international expansion in the service. Meta AI is already available via several platforms in the United Kingdom, including Instagram, but it will now also be available in the Whatsapp popular messaging service.
The AI ​​Multimodal and Multilingual ASA is inside Meta applications, allowing you to call it for various tasks, such as the conservation of the relevant content for a trip you make or think about plans in a group cat. As part of the Meta AI EU expansion, the assistant’s cat’s cat function will also be available in six new European languages.
Since Meta IA was launched in the United States in September 2023, Europeans endured a significant expectation to be able to take advantage of the same IA experiences on Facebook and Messenger as their Atlantic friends. But Meta is far from being the only company that has struggled to struggle with the way in which European regulations affect the deployment of AI tools. Apple’s intelligence is still not available in EU countries, although the company has declared a The release at the scale of Europe is scheduled for April. The two companies have experienced difficulties with the regulatory environment in Europe, which prioritizes the confidentiality of people’s data (which makes models more difficult) and the leveling of the rules of the game between technology giants and small businesses.
The meta-PDG Mark Zuckerberg and former world affairs president Nick Clegg expressed the slowness of the slow EU regulators to allow the company to move forward with a European meta-IA. Zuckerberg said last December that It was “sad” that Europeans were left behind. Nevertheless, the company has persevered and has now reached a point where it is convinced that it can launch Meta IA in the region while complying with the rules.
“We worked to find a way to bring Meta AI to the EU in a way that complies with the fragmented and unpredictable regulatory system from Europe,” said a Meta spokesperson. “This launch follows almost a year of intensive engagement with various European regulators and for the moment, we only offer a text model only in the region which was not trained on the first party of EU users.”
The spokesperson added that the company will continue to collaborate with regulators so that residents of Europe “have access to and are correctly served by Meta AI innovations which are already available for the rest of the world”.
