In pursuit of godlike technology, Mark Zuckerberg amps up the AI race

In April, Mark Zuckerberg’s lofty plans for the future of artificial intelligence crashed into reality.

Weeks earlier, the 41-year-old CEO of Meta had publicly boasted that his company’s new AI model, which would power the latest chatbots and other cutting-edge experiments, would be a “beast.” Internally, Zuckerberg told employees that he wanted it to rival the AI systems of competitors like OpenAI and be able to drive features such as voice-powered chatbots, people who spoke with him said.