Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million…
The company’s business AI tools facilitated about 10 million conversations per week as of late March, up from 1 million in the beginning of this year, Meta said during its first-quarter conference call on Wednesday. Meta isn’t monetizing its business AI tools yet, offering them for free to small businesses to achieve scale, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted that may change in the near future. “Business AIs today are currently free for most businesses on our messaging apps, but as we make more progress, we expect that we will also work towards establishing a longer-term monetization model,” Zuckerberg said during the call.
Meta has been baking AI capabilities into its suite of business products on its various platforms, and is working to power these products with its new large language model, Muse Spark , the first one to be released under the Meta Superintelligence Labs division set up last year. The company said it has seen solid traction for its creative AI tools in the quarter. “Usage of our ad creative tools is also scaling, with more than 8 million advertisers using at least one of our GenAI ad creative tools, and particularly strong adoption among small and medium-sized businesses.
These tools are benefiting performance as well, with advertisers using our video generation feature seeing more than 3% higher conversion rates in tests,” CFO Susan Li said on the call. The company is also launching the open beta of Meta Ads AI Connectors this week, which will let advertisers connect their Meta ad account to an AI agent.
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Key Takeaways
- The company is also launching the open beta of Meta Ads AI Connectors this week, which will let advertisers connect their Meta ad account to an AI agent.
- He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web.
- The growth comes as the company recently expanded the beta program of its business AI assistant in the U.S., EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.
Watch for follow-up announcements from competing platforms — the industry rarely stays quiet for long after news like this.
Source: TechCrunch