With the distraction of the company rebrand and Zuckerberg’s focus on the metaverse, Meta initially dragged its feet on building the infrastructure it needs to support these kinds of AI features, leading it to spend billions of dollars on rehauling its data centers in recent quarters. The unprecedented success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has made generative AI the tech trend du jour, with Google, Meta, and smaller players like Snap now racing to build competing applications. Meta sees “an opportunity to introduce AI agents to billions of people in ways that will be useful and meaningful,” what is your take on Meta’s future on AI?
