Last year, we introduced you to AI experiences that help you get things done, learn, create, and connect with the things and people you care about. Since then, we’ve continued to work Safety and responsibility at the forefront. Meta AI is on track to become the most used AI assistant in the world by the end of this year. More than 400 million people use Meta AI monthly, including 185 million people every week across our products. Today we launched new multimodal features at Connect, thanks to our Lama 3.2 Models that make Meta AI and our other AI products more fun, useful, and powerful.

Meta-AI now has a voice

You can now use your voice to speak with Meta-AI via Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram DM and it will answer you out loud. Get answers to your questions, have Meta AI explain something you’re interested in, or hear a joke to lighten the mood.

With the introduction of this feature, you can also choose from several different voice options for your assistant – including some well-known ones like the AI ​​voices of Awkwafina, Dame Judi Dench, John Cena, Keegan Michael Key and Kristen Bell.

Meta AI can now answer questions about your photos and edit them in new ways

You can now also share photos in your chats with Meta AI, and Meta AI can understand what it sees and answer questions about it, helping you learn more about the world around you. That means you can share a photo of a flower you see on a hike and ask Meta AI what kind of flower it is. Or you can share a photo of a new dish you want to cook and ask Meta AI for instructions on how to prepare it.

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Need help editing your photos? Now you can send a picture in a chat with Meta AI and tell Meta AI what you want to add, remove, or change in the photo – from changing your outfit to replacing the background with a rainbow.

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And if you want to reshare a photo from your feed to your Instagram story, Meta AI’s new background feature can take a look at your photo, understand what’s in the picture, and generate a fun background for the story.

Testing Meta AI Translations for Creator Content

We’re testing a Meta AI translation tool that will automatically translate Reels audio so more people can enjoy your content, even if you speak different languages. With automatic dubbing and lip-syncing, Meta AI simulates the speaker’s voice in another language and lip-syncs accordingly. We’re starting with small tests on Instagram and Facebook, translating some videos from creators in Latin America and the US into English and Spanish, and plan to expand this to more creators and languages.

More Meta-AI updates on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger

We’re expanding Meta AI’s Imagine capabilities so you can now imagine yourself as a superhero or anything else right in feeds, stories, and your Facebook profile pictures. You can then easily share your AI-generated images for your friends to see, react to, or imitate. Meta AI can also suggest captions for your stories on Facebook and Instagram.

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You can already choose from a list of chat themes in Messenger and Instagram DMs that change the background and text bubble color for everyone in the chat. Now you can use AI to create the perfect personalized theme for your chats. Just tap “Themes” in your chat details to get started.

And we’re testing new Meta AI-generated content in your Facebook and Instagram feeds, so you may see images from Meta AI created just for you (based on your interests or current trends). You can tap a suggested prompt to take that content in a new direction, or swipe to imagine new content in real time.

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Advanced AI tools for enterprises

We’re expanding our Business AIs to thousands of businesses using click-to-message ads on WhatsApp and Messenger in English, so they can quickly set up Business AIs that can communicate with their customers, offer support, and facilitate commerce. From answering common customer questions to discussing products to completing a purchase, these Business AIs can help businesses reach more customers and increase revenue.

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We also continue to see strong adoption of our generative AI advertising tools. More than one million advertisers use the tools and 15 million ads were created with them last month. On average, advertising campaigns using Meta’s generative AI advertising features resulted in an 11% higher click-through rate and a 7.6% higher conversion rate compared to campaigns that did not use these features.

From voice and vision features to new tools that help businesses grow, our AI technology is now smarter, more fun, and more useful. We’ll keep improving it to give you the best AI tools to support your creativity and make your life easier.