Mark Zuckerberg announced on his WhatsApp channel that Meta will introduce its artificial intelligence chatbot, called Meta AI, to six more countries today and roll it out more gradually in the coming months.

Countries that will have access to Meta AI starting today include: Brazil, England, Philippines, Bolivia, Guatemala and Paraguay. After that, a phased rollout will cover a total of 22 to 43 countries. Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and Yemen.

Meta AI will also support more than 12 languages ​​by the end of this release, including Arabic, Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese. It will be available to users in these regions on the Meta.ai website, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger applications.

At the time of this writing, if you access Meta.ai from one of the six countries above, you will still be presented with a waiting screen that says “Meta AI is not yet available in your country.” However, you can expect this to change later today.

Meta continues to rapidly develop its artificial intelligence models to keep up with Microsoft and Google’s work on Copilot and Gemini, respectively. Zuckerberg said Meta is “playing to win” and the investment is focused on that area of ​​the business. Meanwhile, Microsoft recently announced a major update to Copilot, and Google has rolled out Gemini features to its other products, like Fitbit.

Meta recently added new voices to Meta AI from celebrities like John Cena and Judi Dench, taking a more “exaggerated” approach compared to OpenAI, which got into trouble a few months ago for using a voice that was eerily similar to Scarlett Johansson’s voice. role in the movie HE.