Zuck is refusing to give up on his $15-billion-a-year metaverse dream and insists AI will play a critical role in it

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reaffirmed the company's commitment to the metaverse, stating that it continues to invest heavily in the project despite recent AI investments. In an interview with The Verge, Zuckerberg emphasized that AI is crucial to Meta's future products, including its hardware products like the Ray-Ban smart glasses, and has the potential to generate virtual worlds and artificial characters.

Despite losing a cumulative $47 billion in its metaverse-focused Reality Labs division since 2019, Meta is still investing more than $15 billion a year into the project. The company is also considering developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) and potentially open-sourcing it. Nicola Mendelsohn, Meta's global business group head, echoed Zuckerberg's sentiments, stating at the World Economic Forum that it would take a "good decade to get to that fully realized vision" of the metaverse.

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Mark Zuckerberg has stated that Meta is not pivoting to AI, but continues to focus on the development of the metaverse, with an investment of over $15 billion a year.
Zuckerberg sees AI as critical to Meta's future products and believes it has the potential to generate virtual worlds and artificial characters.
Meta is also considering the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and potentially open-sourcing it.
Despite significant investments, Meta's metaverse-focused Reality Labs division has lost a cumulative $47 billion since 2019.

Zuck is refusing to give up on his $15-billion-a-year metaverse dream and insists AI will play a critical role in it

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