On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his new AI vision with plans to bring “personal superintelligence” to smart glasses, as he quietly moves away from his stance on ambitious goals for Meta’s open source AI initiatives.
Coming from Zuckerberg, this is a radical shift in Meta’s data and AI strategy – a sign the giant’s priorities are changing – as it fights market competitors like OpenAI and Google DeepMind.
Instead of focusing on creating models that can accomplish everyday tasks, Meta aims to create AI tools that are personal assistants, always learning, and personalized to help people.
The “personal superintelligence” concept is at the core of what Meta envisions to redefine how we interact with technology. And at the heart of that interaction? Smart glasses.
Will Meta Open Source AI?
Zuckerberg’s parent company has long been a leader with its Meta AI strategy, by promoting its Llama large language model (LLM) family as open rivals to its competitors’ closed models.
In fact, Meta’s open source AI was once seen as a threat, giving researchers, developers, and businesses free access to capabilities. That may be changing.
In his blog post, Zuckerberg acknowledged that the company needs to be wiser.
“We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible,” he stated. “That said, superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns. We’ll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source.”
The announcement hints at a shift in Meta’s AI and superintelligence policy, although it hasn’t officially abandoned its open-source roots but it’s clear that Facebook-parent is becoming picky.
“We plan to continue releasing leading open-source models. We haven’t released everything we’ve developed historically, and we expect to continue training a mix of open and closed models going forward,” a Meta spokesperson clarified.
It’s also interesting to see that AI backdrop by Meta has made a radical shift over the past year. In June 2025, Meta poured in $14.3 billion into Scale AI, hiring up its founder and renaming its AI initiative under a new flag: Meta Superintelligence AI Labs.
The goal? To outdo GPT-4 and cement Meta’s destiny as an artificial general intelligence power to be feared.
Open source AI Is the Path Forward
Despite the strategic shift, Zuckerberg remains optimistic about the future of hardware, especially AI glasses, to make AI closer.
“I continue to think that glasses are basically going to be the ideal form factor for AI, because you can let an AI see what you see throughout the day, hear what you hear, [and] talk to you,” Zuckerberg told investors.
Ray-Ban Meta and emerging Oakley Meta glasses already permit users to listen to music, take photos, and connect with AI. Such early achievement has further urged Meta to keep expanding its capabilities, like glasses which combine virtual and physical reality displays. A step fast linked with Zuckerberg AI open source goals.
Zuckerberg noted that Meta superintelligence AI will not be in the cloud, it will be on your face.
However, as more powerful open source AI models are created, the debate over how much to open to the public grows more intensely. Some argue that full openness allows for backlash, but others argue limiting innovation stifles progress.
This AI open source debate is now center stage.
Meta’s open source AI helped shape our AI today, but whether it will remain at the forefront is dependent on how Meta navigates innovation, safety, and control. While the company is racing toward its personal AI future, the rules are again shifting.
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