WhatsApp’s huge 500 million consumer in India has supercharged Meta’s AI ambitions.
Meta CFO Susan Li mentioned Wednesday that India is the biggest market when it comes to Meta AI utilization, a notable milestone contemplating the product launched in India only a few months in the past.
Li mentioned throughout Meta’s second-quarter earnings name that individuals have used Meta AI for billions of queries because the launch.
“We’re seeing significantly promising indicators on WhatsApp when it comes to retention and engagement, which has coincided with India changing into our largest marketplace for Meta AI utilization,” she famous.
Meta first launched Meta AI, which is current throughout Instagram, Fb, Messenger, WhatsApp and the online, in america final yr. The corporate upgraded the chatbot in April with the brand new Llama 3 mannequin and rolled it out in over a dozen international locations.
Whereas Meta began testing Meta AI in India across the identical time, it wasn’t obtainable to all customers till June, after India’s common elections have been accomplished.
The corporate has confronted cultural challenges in making AI extra tuned to the Indian market. In Might, TechCrunch reported that Meta AI-generated pictures of Indian males predominantly with turbans. In July, a number of customers on X complained that Meta AI generated jokes on one faith and declined to try this for some others. These outcomes have been inconsistent, and ultimately Meta tweaked its algorithm to make it a degree taking part in subject for spiritual jokes.
Final month, the social large launched assist for languages other than English, together with French, German, Hindi, Hindi-Romanized Script, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Meta AI is now obtainable in 22 international locations, together with current additions of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico.
Zuckerberg additionally talked about needing 10 occasions the computing energy to coach the following Llama 4 mannequin.
“The quantity of computing wanted to coach Llama 4 will doubtless be virtually 10 occasions greater than what we used to coach Llama 3, and future fashions will proceed to develop past that,” Zuckerberg mentioned in the course of the name.
Aside from AI, Meta noticed promising indicators for its social networks. The corporate famous that Threads now has “virtually” 200 million customers. Meta mentioned final month that the Twitter/X rival had handed 175 million lively customers. Moreover, Zuckerberg talked about that the corporate is seeing promising outcomes of Fb utilization amongst younger adults within the U.S.
Correction: The feedback about India and Meta AI utilization within the nation was incorrectly attributed to Mark Zuckerberg. CFO Susan Li made these feedback.