Meta AI now has one billion month-to-month lively customers throughout its apps, CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned on the firm’s annual shareholder assembly on Wednesday, as first reported by CNBC. The brand new milestone doubles the 500 million monthly active users Meta AI had again in September 2024.
The “focus for this yr is deepening the expertise and making Meta AI the main private AI with an emphasis on personalization, voice conversations and leisure,” Zuckerberg mentioned.
He went on to state that Meta’s plan is to maintain constructing out the AI assistant earlier than making a enterprise round it. Because the assistant will get upgraded over time, Zuckerberg mentioned “there will probably be alternatives to both insert paid suggestions” or launch “a subscription service so that individuals will pay to make use of extra compute.”
If Meta had been to launch a paid subscription service, it will be seeking to rival in style AI chat apps, reminiscent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The brand new milestone comes a month after Meta launched a stand-alone Meta AI app.