Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces plans to add generative AI to all its products

Meta wants to add generative AI to all of its products. The company wants to focus more on such artificial intelligence and also develop it itself. That has to be done “completely in the open,” says Mark Zuckerberg.

The company’s CEO said that 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. “We’ve seen some incredible breakthroughs in the past year and that gives us the opportunity to take that technology, improve it and put it in all of our products,” said the CEO. Zuckerberg thinks the company “can play an important and unique role” in the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence.

During the speech, Zuckerberg said that Meta should not work 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 and specifically in the case of AI. He wants the company to make things like how algorithms work publicly available. The founder of Facebook thinks that this will ultimately lead to better platforms because there are more critical views. That is not entirely new either. Meta previously released several language models it uses to train AI for scientific research.

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