# Meta.AI US IP Region Not Supported Solutions


## Update (2025.4.29)

Account registered mid-last year was dead when logging in this year first half. Meta's risk control is definitely the strictest. Also tried re-registering on US East Windows machine—basically get risk controlled immediately upon registration.

Near the Llama Developer Conference, I bought a US Facebook account online and successfully used meta.ai on US East Windows machine. Hoping Llama Developer Conference has surprises, but personally expect the release won't match today's Alibaba team's Qwen3.

![ChatGPT o3's research on Llama Developer Conference](https://cdn.sa.net/2025/04/29/VTC7zSWiN4gvcA8.webp)

## Background

Recently Meta released open-source Llama 3.1. [via](https://t.me/aigc1024/7441)

![Meta released open-source Llama 3.1](https://cdn.sa.net/2024/08/06/cWaxI5okwVnqSD4.webp)

When I tried logging into Meta.AI official site to try the latest model, I found US IP wasn't supported.

![Meta.AI US IP not supported](https://cdn.sa.net/2024/08/06/aLz4huiCFRUOXZG.webp)

So I opened Microsoft Remote Desktop, connected to my US East Windows machine, and in incognito mode tried logging into Meta.AI with Meta account—still got region not supported error.

Not giving up, I used a US educational network residential node I got free for a month earlier, enabled nekobox TUN mode, tried again—same error.

Helplessly, could only use WhatsApp to experience the latest model.

![Meta.AI region not supported](https://cdn.sa.net/2024/08/06/WrXPCkVnLSI3t4H.webp)

Later searching for solutions online, first saw this L Site post—[High quality IP can't access Meta.AI?](https://linux.do/t/topic/72735).

Post author described in May 2024 also couldn't access Meta.AI with high quality US IP.

Later I also posted on L Site—[meta.ai US IP not supported? Stricter risk control?](https://linux.do/t/topic/157895), to see if anyone else had the same error.

One comment made perfect sense.

![L Site user comment 1](https://cdn.sa.net/2024/08/06/rs3czE5BFgh6uCO.webp)

Since the latest Llama model in WhatsApp was still slightly inferior to Claude 3.5 Sonnet, I didn't act on it.

## Solution

This morning while clearing tabs, I saw last month's leftover content and re-registered a Facebook account with email. Didn't use US proxy IP locally—operated entirely on US East Windows machine. Then used Facebook to log into Meta.AI—successfully accessed.

![Re-registered Facebook account, successfully accessed Meta.AI](https://cdn.sa.net/2024/08/06/QNJ3I4nPMv5AhGZ.webp)

Indeed as that user said—whether you can log into Meta.AI depends on Facebook account's regional attribute.

Years ago I probably registered Meta apps through Hong Kong IP.

This Meta.AI region restriction should be risk control Meta.AI added mid-year—this restriction is probably based on your Meta account's registration location [region-restricted Meta accounts showed nothing abnormal in all settings]. In April this year, I could access Meta.AI with US IP without this restriction. In July, I encountered this restriction again.

Overall, if you encounter similar issues, best use native US IP [after enabling proxy, ping0.cc shows native IP, not broadcast IP], re-register a Facebook account with email, then use the new account to log into Meta.AI—should work normally.

![ping0.cc shows native IP](https://cdn.sa.net/2024/08/06/Yi5XwPIt2vkmNyq.webp)

Finally attaching what I think is Meta AI's most surprising feature—real-time image generation [released in April first half of year]. Here's an example of me using Meta AI real-time image generation in WhatsApp app [fishes means multiple fish species 😁].

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Web can also experience real-time image generation. Use `Imagine: xxx` prompt to try.

![Meta.AI web real-time image generation](https://cdn.sa.net/2024/08/06/jNLbOuzqvw4AWFc.webp)

This real-time interactive experience is quite nice.

Other models like Llama 3.1-405B are beneficial for open-source LLM research and development. For ordinary people, as this fellow said—can skip it, just embrace Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

![L Site user comment 2](https://cdn.sa.net/2024/08/06/vOFBZGKwpytVaLd.webp)