He mentions how “closed” AI labs have been cutting costs since Meta released its Llama model for free and says he thinks open-source AI will win. (Of note: OpenAI rolled out its advanced voice mode to all of its paid subscribers last night, just before Meta rolled out its voice mode today.)
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You’ll be able to video chat with a creator’s AI persona. I’ve tried this, and it’s wild. We’re getting a demo of it now onstage. The crowd is into it.
We’re live at Meta’s headquarters at Menlo Park, where Zuckerberg (sans gold chain) and his team are expected to announce new hardware and AI updates.
“We have a lot of stuff to show you,” he says. “A lot of the stuff we’ve been building for a long time — glasses, mixed reality, AI — is happening.”
You can follow along below for more news from the keynote.
Here at Snap’s annual Partner Summit in Santa Monica, he’s asking for suggestions from the audience as he generates AR effects with AI while wearing a pair. (You can read my full impressions of the hardware here.) Bring back more live tech demos like this, please!

Will developers finally help Snap take AR glasses mainstream?
I’m here at Snap’s annual conference in Santa Monica where the company just announced its biggest redesign to Snapchat in years. You can read more about that below. They keynote is still going and I hear there’s some other big news coming, so stay tuned for more.









