Meta AI expands to Nigeria, six others

By Adeyemi Adepetun

META has launched ‘ Meta AI in seven countries across Sub- Saharan Africa, built with Llama 3 - a significant step in making Meta AI smarter, faster, and more fun than ever before.

nections The rollout and of provide this AI assistant millions in of English Africans will with enhance tools to con- be more on phones creative, and expressive in pockets and for productive. free in Nigeria, It is now South available Africa, Ghana, Meta Uganda, AI Zambia, can be Zimbabwe used on and Facebook, Malawi. Instagram, Whatsapp and Messenger to get things done, learn, create and connect with the things that matter. Meta AI can be used in feeds, chats, searches and more across apps to get things done and access real- time information without leaving the app under usage.

Meta Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, in a post, said: “Our goal is to build the world’s leading AI. We believe Meta AI is now the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use. To make Meta AI even smarter, we’ve also integrated realtime knowledge from Google and Bing, right into the answers. We’re also making it much easier to use across our apps.

“With our expansion of Meta AI in English to new countries, we are excited to share our next- generation assistant with even more people and make it work for you by providing real- time information through our seamless search integration in the apps you know and love. The new features of Meta AI include the ability to animate images, iterate on them with friends, in a new sparking style, or your even creativity turn them in new into ways.” a GIF to share

Meta first announced this form of connecting with others at the 2023 Meta Connect. Now, more people around the world can interact with it in more ways than ever before.