While Mark Zuckerberg's famous messaging service was recently criticized by Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, who even described it as a simple imitation of Telegram on the social network X, WhatsApp is attracting more and more users.
Indeed, during the results for the first quarter of 2025, the Meta group highlighted a very impressive number of users for its platform...
3 billion people use WhatsApp every month
Since its acquisition in 2014 by Facebook for $19 billion at the time, the WhatsApp messaging service has managed to establish itself as a true benchmark among the various messaging services on the market.
While it had struggled to develop since its beginnings In 2009, WhatsApp finally managed to reach 2 billion users in 2020, in the midst of the health crisis.
When Meta announced its results for the first quarter of 2025, it was Mark Zuckerberg himself who announced these excellent results. In a remote conference followed by TechCrunch, he highlighted the 3 billion monthly users for WhatsApp.
This makes the messaging service one of the only tools in the world to exceed this number of users along with Facebook, and this promises very bright prospects for the future...
A massive use of Meta AI to come?
In recent months, Meta has been trying as best it can to compete with the giants of artificial intelligence, including OpenAI and Google Gemini. In recent days, Meta has also launched a new application, Meta AI, which does not require logging into social networks like Instagram, Facebook, or even WhatsApp.
However, as Susan Li, the company's CFO, pointed out, WhatsApp is one of the most used entry points for artificial intelligence. According to her, a significant number of messaging users have already had the opportunity to interact with Meta AI within WhatsApp.
New features that boost WhatsApp usage
Although Mark Zuckerberg communicated earlier this year about new features coming to Facebook, the company Meta could well put a considerable effort into its online messaging.
Indeed, if since the appearance of ChatGPT, the conversational mode seems to interest users again, Meta has mainly focused on new features for WhatsApp. This month, WhatsApp has already announced a dozen tools integrated into the application, such as document scans, improved video quality, and video updates.
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