Mark Zuckerberg: Meta is catching up with AI

Zuckerberg's statements come in an interview with the Financial Times. He claims that the new Muse Wonder model does better than comparable models from competitors Anthropic and OpenAI on some tasks. – Getting to where we are today has required enormous amounts of computing power and significant investments, in addition to very thorough scientific work over a long time from the team that worked on this, Zuckerberg told the newspaper. Read also Shipping Winner: – Exceptional According to Meta, the model performs better than Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 as well as OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra on some technical measures. The company claims to be on par with competitors in coding as well as financial and legal matters, according to Bloomberg. Opponents of Slowdown Zuckerberg has been opposed to strict regulations to slow down AI development and believes that each company should be responsible for the models being safe. He played an important role in getting Donald Trump's "Accord on Super Intelligence" in place at the end of September, where a number of other top executives, including Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, and Jensen Huang, also committed to voluntary safety checks. – I am much closer to the view that AI is a technology that can be developed with ordinary safety mechanisms and built responsibly than the anthropomorphizing view of AI, which is that it should just go and do its own thing, he says. Stocks Rise on Wall Street Meta's stock rose by around 4 percent on Wall Street Monday. The stock has risen by around 10 percent since Meta launched the AI assistant Muse in September. The Muse app is the most downloaded both on Apple and Android in the USA. Muse Wonder will make the app better, writes the Wall Street Journal. OpenAI and Google have launched similar assistants, Dots and Sparks. Zuckerberg has turned the focus of Meta over to artificial intelligence in the last slow year after a failed venture into the "metaverse".