Zuckerberg kiistää väitteen, että meta on siirtymässä pois AR/VR:stä

Julkaissut Platon

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Mark Zuckerberg strongly denied the idea that Meta’s new generative AI focus means a pivot away from AR/VR.

Meta has been heavily investing in AI research for more than a decade now. Meta’s AI research lab was established as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) back in 2013 and is led by Yann LeCun, a pioneer of deep learning known as one of the three “Godfathers of AI”. It has since become one of the leading AI research labs on the planet. Some of the fruits of this research have benefited Meta’s products in recent years, such as its recommendation and moderation systems in Instagram and its tracking and computer vision software in its Quest headsets.

Meta’s interest in AI has received a lot more public attention in the past year however amid the advancements in and popularization of large language models like OpenAI’s GPT series and Meta’s open-source competitor series LLaMA. This has led to claims that Mark Zuckerberg is pivoting away from his focus on Reality Labs, the company’s AR/VR division.

Zuckerberg tässä kuussa ilmoitettu että Meta investoi voimakkaasti uuteen tavoitteeseen rakentaa yleistä tekoälyä (AGI), jonka jotkut tulkitsevat lisätodisteena tästä ilmeisestä käänteestä. Mutta sisään an interview with The Verge’s Alex Heath, Zuckerberg torjui ajatuksen voimakkaasti.

Here’s what he told Heath when it was brought up:

"En tiedä miten voisin yksiselitteisemmin sanoa, että jatkamme keskittymistä Reality Labsiin ja metaversumiin"

"Se ei ole vain kompromissi näiden kahden asian välillä."

Meta is currently spending more than $15 billion each year on Reality Labs. In its Q3 2023 earnings call, which took place in late October, the company’s CFO Susan Li sanoi she expected Reality Labs losses to increase in 2024, due to “ongoing product development efforts” and “investments to further scale our ecosystem”, strongly suggesting that spending figure will go up, not down.

Yli 50% of Reality Labs spending is on the research and development of AR glasses, a future product line that hasn’t even launched yet, and Meta is reportedly also developing both a halvempi versio Quest 3:sta ja Quest Pron seuraaja kumppanuus LG:n kanssa.

Sisältöpuolella Meta on hankkinut kahdeksan pelistudiota viime vuosina ja äskettäin julkaissut kaksi AAA-peliä Questille, Asgardin viha 2 yhdestä sen studioista ja Assassin's Creed Nexus Ubisoftilta. Se myös investoi edelleen voimakkaasti Horizon "metaverse" -alustaan, tuoda sen mobiiliin ja verkkoon viime vuonna ja rakentaa ensimmäisen osapuolen studio lähetettäväksi korkealaatuisia pelejä sen sisällä.

Zuckerberg has repeatedly described Meta’s AR/VR ambitions as a multi-decade endeavor, and as far as we can tell he isn’t backing down on his commitment to it. It may generate clicks to suggest Mark Zuckerberg is “abandoning the metaverse”, but the idea just isn’t rooted in reality.