Meta AI Launches in Europe After Year-Long Regulatory Delay

The rollout features a limited text-based chatbot and excludes multimodal capabilities to comply with EU privacy laws.

Meta AI is now available on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger in 41 European countries and 21 overseas territories.
The European version of Meta AI is restricted to text-only chatbot functionality and lacks multimodal features like image generation or editing.
The AI assistant is not trained on EU user data, addressing privacy concerns raised by European regulators.
Meta’s initial plans to train its AI on publicly available user data were rejected by the EU, leading to nearly a year of negotiations.
Meta plans to expand the AI assistant’s features in Europe over time to align with the US version, pending further regulatory approvals.