United Kingdom, March 21 -- Meta's AI chatbot is finally being rolled out across Europe.

The technology launched in the US back in 2023 but it's debut in Europe was paused amid concerns over privacy and data protection issues however, the company is now pressing ahead with adding Meta AI as a limited text-based chat feature to WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger across 41 European countries and 21 overseas territories including Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.

Meta spokesperson Ellie Heatrick told The Verge: "This launch follows almost a year of intensive engagement with various European regulators and for now, we are only offering a text-only model in the region which wasn't trained on first-party data from users in the EU.

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