$Meta Platforms (META.US)$CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that the company's AI chatbot, Meta AI, has been launched in six countries, including Brazil, United Kingdom, the Philippines, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Paraguay.

The company stated that in addition to these countries, Meta AI will also be launched in more countries in the coming weeks, including the Middle East and Southeast Asia, such as Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Thailand, Tunisia, UAE, Vietnam, and Yemen. Meta AI will also add support for Arabic, Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese languages. After this release, Meta AI will cover approximately 40 countries and support over a dozen languages. However, the company has not provided specific launch dates for these countries.

According to Meta, the company's AI assistant can be used on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger applications, and the Meta.ai website.

Meanwhile, Meta AI will be launched on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in the United Kingdom and Australia. However, the release in the UK currently supports only voice functionalities, and Meta has not provided a timeline for when UK customers can expect full multi-modal functionalities on the glasses.

It is worth noting that the European Union is absent from this expansion. Earlier this summer, Meta announced that it would not introduce multi-modal AI services in the EU due to regulatory concerns. Previously, Zuckerberg publicly criticized European regulatory institutions for their approach to the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence.

During last month's Meta Connect event, Zuckerberg mentioned that Meta AI currently has 'close to' 0.5 billion users worldwide. He also stated that by the end of this year, this chatbot is expected to become the most widely used AI assistant in the world.

Meta CFO Susan Li stated during the 2024 second-quarter earnings call that India is the largest market for Meta AI, mainly due to WhatsApp's user base in the country exceeding 0.5 billion.

Last month, the company added new features to Meta ai, such as new celebrity voices and support for synchronous translation of mouth movements. In addition, the company has expanded its generative AI-driven 'Imagine' feature to Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, allowing users to generate photos through natural language prompts. Furthermore, Meta ai can now understand user photos, provide answers based on the photos, and even edit them.

In addition, this month Meta also launched the self-proclaimed most advanced media base model, Movie Gen. According to a previous article from Wall Street News, Meta described Movie Gen as the company's 'breakthrough generative AI research for media,' which includes modalities such as images, videos, and audio. Users can create custom videos and audio, edit existing videos, and transform personal images into unique videos simply by entering text. Movie Gen's performance in these tasks outperforms similar models in industry human evaluations.

Meta introduces Movie Gen as the 'most advanced, most immersive, and most effective storytelling model suite' that integrates the company's first wave of generative AI media research models from the Make-A-Scene series. These models can create images, audio, videos, and 3D animations. Additionally, it includes the second wave research models targeting the Llama Image base model with the emergence of the diffusion model, enabling higher-quality image and video generation as well as image editing.

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