Mark Zuckerberg is buying Meta a seat at the AI table. Does he know what to do with it?
08-27-2026FAST COMPANY MAGAZINE
Mark Zuckerberg is buying Meta a seat at the AI table. Does he know what to do with it?
After the metaverse bust, Zuckerberg is spending billions to reinvent Meta as an AI giant. First, he’ll have to translate his vision of “personal superintelligence” into products people actually want.
BY Harry McCracken With reporting by Rebecca Heilweil and Mark Sullivan
Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, posted an AI manifesto to his company’s website in August. The 6,537-word missive resembled similar proclamations from CEOs such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei. Unlike theirs, however, it argued that the power of future AI models should be put directly in the hands of as many people as possible, in the form of “personal superintelligence” that would benefit everyone from small-business owners to 8-year-olds like........
