Meta AI registers more than 500 million users a year after its launch

Meta Platforms has announced that its ‘chatbot’ powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Meta AI, already registers more than 500 million users on the different platforms and formats in which it is available, a figure that has been reached just one year after its launch. start-up.

The company led by Mark Zuckerberg announced this assistant in September 2023, a technology based on Call 2 with the ability to access information in real time, as well as to interact with natural language through its services (WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Messenger). This option was first available in testing for some users in the United States, before expanding its availability and bringing it to other countries.

In April of this year, Meta AI was integrated into these platforms with a new large language model, Llama 3, and with new capabilities to access information from the web without having to switch between applications. A web version was also released then and can currently be used on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.

A month ago, within the framework of the annual Meta Connect 2024 event, Zuckeberg indicated that his assistant It had “almost” 500 million users monthly assets, as TechCrunch recalls. This, despite not having launched it “in some of the largest countries”, referring to the European Union, where it cannot yet be used due to regulatory problems.

In the last conference on the company’s results and corresponding to the third quarter of its fiscal year, the CEO of Meta has confirmed that the number of users of Meta AI – currently based on Llama 3 – has grown, surpassing the mark of the 500 million and only one year later that he announced it, as reported by Engadget.

Meta continues to invest in AI and work on new features for Meta AI and is currently developing a new search engine for it with the aim of stopping depending on the search engines that currently power it, Google Search and Microsoft Bing, as recently reported by The Information .

THREADS ALSO CONTINUES TO GROW

Zuckerberg has also taken advantage of this conference to refer to Threads, a platform that in July of this year registered more than 175 million active users just a year after launching the ‘app’ in the United States and, months later, in Europe.

Now, this ‘microblogging’ service has around 275 million daily active users and more than a million new registrations dailyas the manager has also advanced in his personal Threads profile.

Zuckerberg has assessed that this platform is already on its way in its “next gran ‘app’ social”. Meanwhile, the financial director of Meta Platforms, Susan Li, has indicated that the time these users use it “also continues to grow”, which is why the company is working to “make it easier to stay up to date” on different topics, such as and as published by The Verge.