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Q&A: Mark Zuckerberg on winning the AI race

Q&A: Mark Zuckerberg on winning the AI race

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Meta’s CEO is pushing for the company’s assistant to be the most used chatbot in the world. He opens up about competing with other AI companies, model training, and why he bought all those GPUs when he did.

By Alex Heath, a deputy editor and author of the Command Line newsletter. He has over a decade of experience covering the tech industry.

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A photo of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg called me to talk about what he predicts will be one of the biggest moments in the AI race: the release of Meta’s Llama 3 models and widespread availability of the company’s ChatGPT competitor, Meta AI.

We last spoke in January, when Zuckerberg announced that Meta wants to build artificial general intelligence using the massive stockpile of Nvidia GPUs he secured. In the below interview, parts of which were published on The Verge today, we touch on where he thinks Meta is in the AI race, open versus closed source, and the backstory to why he bought all those GPUs when he did…

The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity:

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