WhatsApp: Third-Party AI Chatbots Arrive in Brazil

Following the announcement of opening up to third-party AI chatbots for European users, Meta is extending the same possibility to Brazil. Brazilian WhatsApp users will therefore be able to interact with conversational agents developed by companies other than Meta, paying for the service.

This move represents a further opening of WhatsApp towards the artificial intelligence ecosystem, allowing external providers to integrate their solutions directly within the world's most popular messaging platform. It remains to be seen which companies will seize this opportunity and what types of AI services they will offer to Brazilian users.

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