Global tech giant Meta announced rolling out its artificial intelligence chatbot Meta AI in India, a move seen as part of its efforts to scale up its AI offerings in an intensely competitive market.
This launch follows Meta testing the AI chatbot with a section of users in India in recent months.
Users can interact directly with the chatbot, which functions as a general-purpose assistant capable of answering a wide range of questions, including real-time information powered by Google and Microsoft’s Bing.
Users can also generate text and images, summarise long pieces of text, help with writing tasks such as proofreading, editing, translating text from one language to another, and create poems and stories.
People can also call in the assistant in their existing personal and group chats on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger to get advice or ask questions.
Chatbot launch in India
Meta’s announcement comes close on the heels of rival Google extending the mobile app of its AI chatbot Gemini to India with support for nine Indian languages.
Meta said its AI chatbot will be available in English across the company’s suite of apps, including WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger.
It will also be available through the recently launched Meta.ai website.
Meta unveiled a new version of Meta AI in April, powered by the firm’s latest large language model Llama 3.
Meta, first introduced Meta AI in September 2023 as part of the social networking giant’s big push into generative AI.
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