- Meta AI reaches 1 billion monthly active users across Meta’s apps
- Zuckerberg hints at future paid features or subscription plans
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Focus shifts to personalization, voice, and entertainment
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company’s AI assistant, Meta AI, has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users across Meta’s family of applications. The announcement was made during Meta’s annual shareholder meeting held on Wednesday.
This major milestone follows the company’s launch of a standalone Meta AI app in April, marking a significant expansion in the tool’s accessibility and usage.
“Our focus this year is on deepening the experience and making Meta AI the leading personal AI assistant — with an emphasis on personalization, voice conversations, and entertainment,” said Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg further noted that the company plans to continue growing the user base before introducing monetization strategies. As Meta AI evolves, he explained,
“There will be opportunities to either insert paid recommendations or offer a subscription service so that people can pay to use more compute.”
According to CNBC, Meta had earlier planned to launch the standalone app in Q2 of the year and test a paid subscription service similar to other generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
“It may seem kind of funny that a billion monthly actives doesn’t feel like scale for us — but that’s where we’re at,” Zuckerberg told shareholders.
During the shareholder meeting, investors voted on 14 items, including nine shareholder proposals covering issues like child safety, greenhouse gas emissions, and a proposed Bitcoin treasury report.
One such proposal — submitted by JLens, an investment advisor affiliated with the Anti-Defamation League — requested an annual report addressing hate content on Meta’s platforms, including antisemitism, following January policy changes that relaxed content moderation.
Preliminary voting results indicated that board-opposed proposals were unlikely to pass — including one that proposed ending Meta’s dual-class share structure, which gives Zuckerberg significant voting power. Meanwhile, board-recommended items, such as director nominations and equity incentive plans, were on track to pass.
Meta stated that final voting results will be published within four business days on the company’s website and with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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