Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., announced that the company is working on building “general intelligence” for AI assistants and “open sourcing it responsibly,” while bringing together its two major research groups, FAIR and GenAI, to make it happen.
The announcement has sparked discussions about the potential invention of truly general AI and has been seen as part of a trend of downplaying AGI as an imminent threat.
Zuckerberg also revealed that Meta is amassing a considerable GPU capacity for the training and running of AI models and hinted at the integration of AI and the Metaverse through wearable devices like glasses, specifically the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses.