Right now for visionary users only but after a debacle with Proton opts for Zoom videoconferencing . Proton now launches their own video conferencing app.
I could not find a public announcement yet.
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If called Proton Meet, then it must be a fork of Jitsi Meet, no? I hope so. And this was about time. A key part of business communication these days. I’m happy with it.
Albeit, the usual complaints about them still stands - improve the existing products more, more Linux support, and for the love of all that is private and secure, release Sheets.
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I am very happy to inform you that your assumption seems based on nothing. It in fact does look a lot better. A lot more like Google Meet in fact.
Well, it was atleast not unreasonable to assume that given the name. But alright.. 
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Well I am very happy that Proton Meet actually is build with default e2ee unlike jitsi who still doesn’t have it out of beta.
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I also hope that anyone can join Proton Meet meetings and not be forced to sign in or sign up with Proton. In this case, this functionality would mimic Zoom.
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My pedantry can be insufferable sometimes but this comment and your title post appear to be in contradiction. If Proton has not announced anything officially, it has not launched it yet.
Proton to launch Proton Meet* perhaps?
it is launched for visonary users only….
IIRC Visionary subscribers are usually given early access to features and in this case, products.
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I suppose we disagree with what the word “launch” means then. Chalk it up to semantics.
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meet.proton.me is live but says Coming Soon
i am no full native but afaik present simple tense is often used to describe future actions so actually my title could even mean in the future. But anyway if you read what i wrote under it I already mentioned it is only for visionary right now.
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Yeah, it hasn’t launched yet. I hope it’s good, though, because so far, my experience with E2EE video conferencing apps is not good. BraveTalk is promising, but it’s too buggy. I’ve scheduled multiple important meetings with it, and it was a total failure. I felt embarrassed.
I hope Proton Meet is free for one on one and small group conferencing. They should also find a way to make it work so that only one party needs to have a Proton account. It makes it easier to persuade people to use it for both personal and business use. I also don’t want to have to expose any of my Proton addresses to use it.
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Yeah, this opens up a lot of possibilities for Proton to provide the world with another solid E2EE chat/messenger/conferencing app. So much Proton can do and improve and add to what’s missing in other apps (eventually).
I’ll report back should I see it be blocked on my end given the country in which I am right now (without a VPN that is, since Signal already is).
After some investigation it looks like Proton did not build Proton Meet from the ground up. It is using LiveKit Meet | Conference app build with LiveKit open source and in fact the WebRTC runs over LiveKit’s Cloud right now. It uses MLS encryption, when assuming that being implemented correctly that seems all fine, just though it was interesting to share.
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Somebody at Proton’s caught the AI bug.
That LiveKit is so futuristic, all about AI: “Build apps that can see, hear, and speak”
LiveKit started in 2021 as “platform for real-time communication” only
And, in archives I see, 2024 started adding most of their AI agent features, powering OpenAI voice assistant itself:
Both LiveKit’s media server and LiveKit’s Agents framework are completely open source and available to host on your own infrastructure.
So similar to Apple’s “implementation” of cross-platform facetimes but by browser? I hope video quality is retained like how Google Meets or Microsoft Teams.
Imagine if Proton vibecoded their LiveKit implementation 
But yeah…I don’t want to discredit it completely. Maybe it’s all just marketing mumbo-jumbo.