Meta now reaches nearly 3.5 billion users across Facebook, Instagram and other apps. And Mark Zuckerberg says the company's mission is to bring AI "personal superintelligence" to all of them.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that the creation of superintelligent artificial intelligence is “now in sight” and that it will herald a “new era of personal empowerment.”Zuckerberg said that Meta’s approach will be “different from others in the industry” because it will focus on developing AI superintelligence to benefit people’s personal life,

Future generations of AI will help people realize their personal goals, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post.

The new memo is pretty meandering, and Zuckerberg followed up with comments on Meta’s Q2 earnings call, saying that nothing had particularly changed. He said the company had always “open-sourced some of our models and not open-sourced everything that we've done.”

Years removed from the failed promises of the metaverse, Zuckerberg has gone all-in on AI, hiring former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang to lead a new “superintelligence” team at Meta, poaching top performers from rival firms like OpenAI and Apple, and making deals to build massive AI infrastructure projects.

The Meta CEO is signaling a major strategic shift in the company's approach to generative AI.

S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures climbed to record levels on Thursday, after blockbuster earnings from Meta and Microsoft signaled Big Tech's hefty artificial intelligence bets were paying off.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq opened at record highs on Thursday, as blockbuster earnings from Meta and Microsoft signaled Big Tech's hefty artificial intelligence bets were paying

Futures tied to the S&P 500 and Nasdaq surged to record highs on Thursday after strong earnings from tech giants Meta and Microsoft reinforced investor confidence that artificial intelligence investments are paying off.