Last week, Mark Zuckerberg published a massive 6,500-word manifesto laying out an aggressive vision for the future of AI. He talked about a future where everyone would have their own personal superintelligence that will know everything about you.
So I sat down with New York Times technology reporter Mike Isaac, who has covered Meta for more than a decade, to unpack what Zuck is really proposing and why Meta is making such an aggressive push into AI right now.
We discuss Meta’s battles with OpenAI and Anthropic, Zuckerberg’s renewed embrace of open models, the company’s massive data center buildout, the backlash against AI infrastructure, and why Meta may be trying to position itself as the alternative to the AI safety movement.
We also get into the biggest problem with Zuckerberg’s vision, and Mike explains why Zuckerberg is suddenly talking to the media again (he called Mike and a few other reporters personally), how far behind Meta really is in the AI race, what the company’s next generation of AI agents could look like, and what to watch for at Meta Connect. If you like my work, please buy a paid subscription to support my reporting!
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