he Meta group is finally introducing its artificial intelligence technology in Europe after one year of delay. So, according to different sources familiar
with the matter, the Meta AI technology is already available for all Meta apps such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, and Messenger in more than 40 European countries and 20 territories overseas.
It should be mentioned that the Meta AI image and other advanced features will not be available yet, as the company stated that European users will only have text-based features. It is not known yet when the other advanced Meta AI features will be available.
In the U.S territory, artificial intelligence technology has been launched for all Meta apps in 2023, with impressive Meta AI Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook capabilities. But, due to Ireland’s privacy concerns and regulations, the Meta Group needed to postpone the European expansion. Also, the Llama AI model was considered to have different regulatory concerns, and as well needed to have a delayed launch.
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As the company stated, the artificial intelligence assistant will not have Meta AI image functionalities, and it will operate only as a chatbot in order to help all European users with information about trips or answer certain questions based on the data found on the internet. Even more so, all European users will have the option to use the AI Meta in order to see certain topics of posts on their own Instagram feed.
“This launch follows almost a year of intensive engagement with various European regulators and for now, we are only offering a text-only model in the region which wasn’t trained on first-party data from users in the EU. We will continue to work collaboratively with regulators so that people in Europe have access to and are properly served by Meta’s AI innovations that are already available to the rest of the world.”, Ellie Heatrick, the Meta spokesperson stated.
The Meta AI image features such as generating and editing images for Instagram or Facebook posts can’t be yet accessed in Europe because the artificial intelligence model is not yet trained based on the European user data.
Even if AI technology has not been available for European users, the company released recently its Meta AI glasses, with impressive advanced capabilities but with some limitations due to the EU regulations. The Meta AI glasses from Ray-Ban don’t allow users to use the multimodal features such as asking the AI technology to explain what they are currently seeing.
It remains to be seen if Meta will put efforts into releasing all the advanced features for European users in order to run properly as it runs in the U.S.
Stay tuned for more updates!
