Mark Zuckerberg, the general director of Meta, told investors that the newly created Meta Labs focuses on building AI models, which can introduce themselves-what means that they can learn from each other without such a vast human contribution. Notes appeared when merging with earnings in the second quarter on Wednesday.
“At a certain level, [it’s] They not only learn from people because you want to build something that is essentially smarter than people, “said Zuckerberg. “So … you will develop a way to improve. This is a very fundamental thing that will have wide consequences for building products and how to run a company.”
This is one of the handful of comments that the CEO has made in the last 12 hours, which gather how the fresh research laboratory Meta plans to compete with rivals such as OpenAI, Google Deepmind and Anthropic.
Early in the morning, Zuckerberg published an online letter And he released a film on Instagram, in which he said that the efforts over the superintelligence of Meta would focus on building a “personal superintelligence”, which would give people tools for its own position and a better world. “It differs from others in the industry who believe that superintelligence should be directed centrally to the automation of all valuable work, and then humanity will live on the basis of its production,” he said.
Another key element of the AI Meta strategy are SmartGlasses, which Zuckerberg said that he thinks “basically will be an ideal form for artificial intelligence.” Since his debut in 2023, Meta sold two million pairs of bright sunglasses made in cooperation with Ray-Ban. In September, the company also showed a futuristic prototype of augmented reality glasses. (The prototype, called Orion, has no sending to consumers, but Meta said that it plans to build fresh devices in the next few years based on Orion research).
For now, it seems that the meta distinguishes between artificial intelligence, which powers the monetization of its basic products, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, and Superinteligental AI, which one day could support humanity in the future.
Zuckerberg’s comments on superintelligence appeared on the heels better than the expected earning report. A company that lasted behind competitors in the AI race spends billions of dollars on the construction of a miniature but powerful superinteligence laboratory that will focus on building AI Frontier models.
Since the public announcement of the laboratory last month, the meta was an aggressive recruitment madness, bringing key silicon Valley agents, such as Alexandr Wang, Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, and offering Packages to compensate for researchers AI as high as nine numbers to lure them to the laboratory. Wang was part of the “purchased” contract concluded in Scale AI, the data start-up that he co-founded. The former researcher Openai Shengjia Zhao was appointed head of the fresh Meta research laboratory.
META has revised its expectations for investment expenditure for this year, increasing its forecast to $ 69 billion. Susan Li, employee compensation is one of the largest propulsion factors, as well as AI infrastructure. Despite the amount that the company spends on the construction of AI products, it also provides for better than expected perspectives in the third quarter, expecting from 47.5 billion to $ 50.5 billion in revenues.