NEW DELHI: WhatsApp has mentioned that it’s testing its giant language model-powered chatbot Meta AI, with customers in India and another markets, in an effort to faucet the large consumer base to up its synthetic intelligence (AI) choices.
The tech big just lately began testing the AI chatbot in choose markets, together with the US.
“Our generative AI-powered experiences are below improvement in various phases, and we’re testing a variety of them publicly in a restricted capability,” a Meta spokesperson mentioned in an announcement on Friday.
With over 500 million WhatsApp customers, India is the moment messaging service’s largest market.
The tech big launched Meta AI, a general-purpose chatbot that may generate photorealistic photographs from textual content prompts and reply consumer queries inside chats in September final 12 months.
As well as, the corporate confirmed earlier this week that it’s going to launch Llama 3, its subsequent open-source giant language mannequin, within the coming month.
In the meantime, Meta has mentioned it’s going to activate an India-specific Elections Operations Centre, bringing collectively consultants to establish potential threats and put particular mitigations in place throughout its apps (Fb, WhatsApp and Instagram), whereas aiming to curb AI-generated pretend or manipulated content material.