WhatsApp is testing its chatbot Meta AI, which leverages a large-scale language model, with users in India and other markets in an effort to leverage its huge user base to power its artificial intelligence (AI) products. It was announced that
The tech giant recently started testing AI chatbots in some markets, including the US.
“Our AI-powered generated experiences are in various stages of development, and we are publicly testing different experiences to a limited extent,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement Friday.
With over 500 million WhatsApp users, India is the instant messaging service's largest market.
Last September, the tech giant launched Meta AI, a general-purpose chatbot that can generate photorealistic images from text prompts and answer user questions within a chat.
Additionally, the company confirmed earlier this week that it will launch its next open source large-scale language model, Llama 3, within the next month.
Meanwhile, Mehta has launched an India-focused Election Operations Center, bringing together experts to identify potential threats and implement specific mitigations across its apps (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram). At the same time, the company announced that it aims to suppress fakes and manipulation generated by AI. content.
