Mark Zuckerberg criticized unnamed AI competitors for their closed-source approach, suggesting they seem to think they are “creating God” with their limited access AI products.
Open AI as the future: Zuckerberg emphasized his belief in open source AI, arguing that artificial intelligence technology should not be hoarded by a single company to build a central product:
Expanding beyond smartphones: While acknowledging the immediate appeal of display-less smart glasses, Zuckerberg outlined a future product roadmap of three categories ahead of their eventual convergence:
Analyzing deeper: Zuckerberg’s strong stance for open AI and against closed competitors with a singular vision could be seen as a veiled criticism of Apple, which reportedly rebuffed Meta’s attempt to integrate its AI into iPhone operating systems. However, his vision of AR glasses eventually usurping many smartphone functions seems to signal Meta’s strategy to circumvent smartphone gatekeepers by shifting to a new hardware paradigm it can shape from the beginning. The three-tier roadmap towards fully immersive glasses appears to be Meta’s answer to diminishing its reliance on other tech giants’ platforms. Nonetheless, mainstream adoption of AR wearables within 10 years, to the point of changing smartphone usage patterns, likely remains an ambitious bet given the social acceptability and technological hurdles that still need to be overcome.