Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,510-word essay Monday (Aug. 10) outlining a future where everyone has “free or affordable access” to what he calls Meta’s superintelligence tools, including personal artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
“For everyone to be part of the future, everyone must have the ability to use superintelligence to improve their lives and shape the world,” Zuckerberg wrote. “We will offer free versions that will be accessible to billions of people.”
Sharing the technology that widely, Zuckerberg argued, will “check and balance the power of institutions,” governments and businesses included.
“Most other labs are focused on building AI for companies, governments, or other institutions. So if those labs lead, then the balance of power will favor larger institutions over individuals,” Zuckerberg added.
The essay also calls for deeper collaboration between AI labs and the government, letting the government examine AI models earlier in the development process.
“This way, the government gains a security capability without restricting or delaying individuals’ access to personal superintelligence or causing an imbalance of power,” Zuckerberg wrote.
Meanwhile, Meta is instituting a new governance system which gives its board the authority to establish safety criteria for AI models and determine if new models meet those standards.
“I do not think it is in my, Meta’s, or the world’s best interests for me or anyone else to be a sole decision maker on how superintelligence is deployed,” he wrote, adding that there should be “an industrywide version of this process.”
Also Monday, Meta debuted Muse Glimmer, the next model from its Meta Superintelligence Labs, saying it was open sourcing the model weights.
“Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows,” the company said in its announcement. “It’s small enough to run on a Mac or PC with a single consumer GPU, enabling use cases that range from local agents and function calling, to local coding, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation.”
Meta last week introduced the beta version of a terminal coding agent called Muse Code, powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model update.
As PYMNTS noted at the time, the company has been facing pressure to show it can monetize AI tools such as its Muse Spark model and to provide meaningful growth to justify its enormous capital expenditures on AI.
