After a nearly one-year suspension of the launch of its artificial intelligence chatbot in Europe due to regulatory reasons, Meta will now bring it to Europe. The company said on Thursday that starting this week, Meta AI will be launched on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger in 41 European countries and 21 overseas regions, but for now, only text-based chat functionality will be available.

Meta spokesperson Elie Seidman said: "We have had intensive engagement with European regulators for nearly a year, and we are currently only offering a text-only mode in the region, which has not been trained on first-party data from EU users. We will continue to work with regulators to enable people in Europe to access Meta's AI innovations and appropriate services, which are already available in other parts of the world."