Meta AI received a major update on Tuesday that expands both its capabilities and availability. The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, which is available on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, is rolling out to users in more regions, and is now accessible in 22 countries. The chatbot also gains support for new languages, and can now accept and respond to prompts in both Hindi (Devanagari script) and Hindi (Roman script). The company also rolled out new image generation and editing capabilities with the latest update.
In a newsroom afterMeta announced the new features of its chatbot that are now rolling out. The company is expanding access to Meta AI across its social media apps in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Cameroon.
Meanwhile, the chatbot also gets support for multilingual capabilities and can now communicate in French, German, Hindi (both Devanagari and Romanized script), Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The social media giant added that support for more languages will be added in the future.
Meta AI updated with new capabilities
While the chatbot was previously able to generate images, the capability is getting two new upgrades. The first is a new feature called Imagine Me. When users write the Imagine Me prompt, the chatbot will ask them to upload an image of themselves.
Users can then ask the chatbot to generate prompt-based images of themselves. Some examples the company shared include “Imagine me on a beach vacation” and “Imagine me as royalty.” This feature is currently rolling out in beta and is only available in the U.S.
The second upgrade allows users to make inline edits to all images generated by Meta AI. Once an image is generated, users can write additional text prompts to edit various elements within it.
For example, a user could generate an image of a boy eating ice cream and then change it into a cake. It’s also possible to make detailed changes, such as changing the color of the shirt, hairstyle and background. Meta said it will add an “Edit with AI” button next month that will allow users to further refine the images.
Meta is also making it easier for users to share these AI-generated images across its apps. The company has begun integrating Meta AI into Instagram and Facebook’s feed, stories, and comments interfaces, as well as posts across all three apps. The feature is rolling out this week to all regions where Meta AI is available in English.
On Tuesday, the social media giant also released its largest open-source AI model, Meta Llama 3.1 405B. This AI model will be available to WhatsApp and meta.ai users. The company says the new AI model has improved reasoning capabilities that can answer complex questions, help with math homework, and write code faster with support for debugging and optimization suggestions.
