Zuckerberg believes that AGI will arrive gradually and its development will be influenced by large language models like Llama 2. He also advocates for an open-source approach to AGI, contrasting it with companies like OpenAI that have become less transparent. However, he did not commit to open-sourcing AGI if it is achieved at Meta. He also dismissed the idea that his focus on AI is a pivot from Meta's metaverse focus, stating that generative AI will play a critical role in Meta's hardware efforts going forward.
Key takeaways:
- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is entering the race to create artificial general intelligence (AGI), with plans to move Meta’s AI research group, FAIR, to the same part of the company as the team building generative AI products across Meta’s apps.
- By the end of this year, Meta will own more than 340,000 of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, the industry’s chip of choice for building generative AI, potentially making it the largest individual company in terms of capacity.
- Zuckerberg believes in an open-source vision for AI, contrasting with companies like OpenAI that have become increasingly less transparent. However, he has not committed to whether Meta would open source AGI if it is achieved.
- Zuckerberg envisions a future where virtual worlds are generated by AI and filled with AI characters that accompany real people, with a new platform coming this year to let anyone create their own AI characters and distribute them across Meta’s social apps.