Meta Founder and CEO MarkZuckerbergIn a recent interview with Stratechery reporter Ben Thompson, he detailed the company's AI strategy centered on the open-source large language model Llama, as well as its future plans for multiple business areas.
In the interview, Zuckerberg predicted that theSocial media will enter the third stage of the AI-generated content explosion - on top of friend sharing and creator content, AI will generate a lot of personalized content based on user preferences.The third direction is to build messaging apps into business platforms. The fourth direction is to develop new businesses that are exclusively AI-driven, such as Meta AI standalone apps and meta-universe content generation services.
Speaking about open source strategy, Zuckerberg criticized Apple's restrictions on developers: "Apple has made a direct statement that it will not allow an ecosystem with platform-independent functionality to be built on top of an already existing platform, and this restrictive policy has led to a deep conflict between our two companies."
Zuckerberg also gave a special nod to the development of DeepSeek:"Now it's not just Llama that's dominating the field, but also AI models like DeepSeek," he said.He predicts that by 2025, developers will primarily be using open source models.
Speaking about the combination of AI and relationships, Zuckerberg said that AI will play an important role in maintaining friendships in the future, such as helping users memorize social details and plan activities.
Zuckerberg thinks AR glasses will be the cell phones of the future, theVR Instead, it's the TV of the future, and the two will evolve together. Zuckerberg revealed that Orion, the advanced AR glasses being developed by Meta and scheduled to launch in the next few years, will be the ideal vehicle for AI assistants to interact with users around the clock.