Meta AI Reaches 1 Billion Monthly Users

Mark Zuckerberg stated at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday that Meta AI assistant now has one billion monthly active users across all of its programs which are the family company’s app, as CNBC originally reported. In September 2024, Meta AI had 500 million monthly active users; this milestone doubles that number.

With a focus on voice chats, entertainment, and personalization, Zuckerberg stated that the “focus for this year is deepening the experience and making Meta AI the leading personal AI.”

After the company published a standalone app for the tool in April, the AI assistant reached its one billion milestone.

He continued by saying that Meta intends to continue developing the AI helper before launching a company centred around it. Zuckerberg also stated on Wednesday Meta’s strategy is to continue expanding the product before creating a company centred around it. Zuckerberg said that “there will be opportunities to either insert paid recommendations” or introduce a subscription service so that people can pay to use more compute” as the assistant is improved and advances over time.

Meta plans to launch a standalone Meta AI app in the second quarter and try a paid subscription service similar to competitors’ chat apps like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to a February CNBC article.

A month after Meta released a standalone Meta AI app, the new milestone was reached.

“A billion monthly activities may not seem like it’s at scale for us, but that’s where we’re at,” Zuckerberg said to shareholders.

Investors cast their votes on 14 business-related items at the Meta shareholder meeting, nine of which were shareholder motions that addressed issues like child safety, greenhouse gas emissions, and a proposed bitcoin treasury assessment.

For instance, in response to January policy changes that loosened content-moderation guidelines, JLens, an investment advisor and affiliate of the Anti-Defamation League, submitted shareholder proposal 8, which required Meta to prepare an annual report outlining and addressing hate content, including antisemitism, on its services.

The measures that Meta’s board did not propose, such as ending the company’s dual-class share structure, which gives Zuckerberg a lot of voting power, were unlikely to pass, according to early vote results on Wednesday. According to the preliminary findings, the board’s preferred vote items, such as those approving the company’s nominations for the board of directors and an equity incentive plan, were probably going to pass.

According to Meta, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the company’s website will both publish the final polling results in four working days.