Zuckerberg: Meta will add generative AI to all products

Meta wants to add generative AI to all its products. The company wants to focus more on such artificial intelligence and develop it itself. This must be done ‘completely openly’, says Mark Zuckerberg.

The CEO of the company said this during a speech to all Meta employees, writes The New York Times. Meta wants to apply generative AI in ‘all its products’, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. “Over the past year we’ve seen some incredible breakthroughs and that gives us the opportunity to take that technology, improve it and put it into all of our products,” he said. Zuckerberg believes the company “can play an important and unique role” in the large-scale adoption of artificial intelligence.

During the speech, Zuckerberg said Meta should not be working on an individual, all-encompassing AI, but on dozens of small systems such as chatbots in WhatsApp and Messenger. The news doesn’t come as a complete surprise; Earlier this year, Meta said it wanted to merge internal AI teams to create chatbots and filters for services like Instagram.

Zuckerberg says he wants to pay a lot of attention to open source technology in the future, specifically in the case of AI. He wants the company to make matters such as the operation of algorithms publicly available. The founder of Facebook thinks that this will ultimately lead to better platforms because they attract more critical attention. That is not entirely new either. Meta previously released several language models that it uses to train AI for scientific research.

Finally, Zuckerberg commented on the Vision Pro, the mixed reality headset that Apple presented earlier this week. Zuckerberg finds the device pricey and points to the company’s own VR glasses, which, like the Oculus Quest, cost less than $500. Zuckerberg also thinks that Apple’s vision of the metaverse is fundamentally different from Meta itself. He also sees little competition there.