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WhatsApp ’s massive 500 million users in India have supercharged Meta ’s AI ambitiousness .
Meta CFO Susan Li pronounce Wednesday that India is the largest market in term of Meta AI usage , a renowned milepost considering the Cartesian product launched in India just a few calendar month ago .
Li tell during Meta ’s second - quarter net profit call that people have used Meta AI for billions of interrogation since its launch .
“ We ’re seeing particularly promising signs on WhatsApp in terms of retentivity and engagement , which has coincide with India becoming our large market for Meta AI exercise , ” she take note .
Meta first launched Meta AI , which is present across Instagram , Facebook , Messenger , WhatsApp and the web , inthe United States last year . The company raise the chatbot in April with the new Llama 3 manakin androlled it outin more than a dozen countries .
While Meta start testingMeta AI in India around the same time , it wasn’tavailable to all drug user until June , after India ’s universal elections were completed .
The company has faced cultural challenges in gain AI more attuned to the Amerindic mart . In May , TechCrunch account thatMeta AI - generated images of Native American man preponderantly with turbans . In July , several users on X complained thatMeta AI generated jape about one religious belief and declined to do the same for others . These result were inconsistent , and in the end Meta pluck its algorithm to make a stratum playing field for spiritual jokes .
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Last calendar month , the social titan introduced support for speech asunder from English , includingFrench , German , Hindi , Hindi - Romanized Script , Italian , Portuguese and Spanish . Meta AI is now useable in 22 land , including the late addition of Argentina , Chile , Colombia , Ecuador and Mexico .
Zuckerberg also babble about needing 10 times the computing power to prepare the next Llama 4 model .
“ The amount of computing needed to coach Llama 4 will belike be almost 10 times more than what we used to train Llama 3 , and succeeding exemplar will continue to grow beyond that , ” Zuckerberg said during the call .
Apart from AI , Meta saw call sign for its social networks . The company noted that Threads now has “ almost ” 200 million user . Meta said last calendar month thatthe Twitter / X competitor had transcend 175 million active users . to boot , Zuckerberg mentioned that the ship’s company is seeing hopeful outcome of Facebook usage among unseasoned adults in the U.S.
