Mark Zuckerberg has assembled several other technology chiefs on an advisory board to advise Meta on artificial intelligence and product development.
According to Bloomberg, Meta’s advisory group will meet periodically with Meta’s management team. Its members include Stripe CEO and co-founder Patrick Collison, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, and former Microsoft executive and investor Charlie Songhurst.
“I have developed a deep respect for this group of people and their achievements in their respective areas, and I am grateful that they are willing to share their perspectives with Meta at such an essential time as we explore fresh possibilities with artificial intelligence and the metaworld,” Zuckerberg wrote in an internal memo to Meta employees, according to Bloomberg.
The advisory board differs from Meta’s 11-member board in that its members are not elected by shareholders and do not have fiduciary duties to Meta, a Meta spokesman told Bloomberg. A spokesman said the men would not be paid for their roles on the advisory board.
“This advisory group is dedicated to providing insights and recommendations on technological advancements, innovation, and strategic growth opportunities,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement shared with Quartz.
The finish line is there spend billions on chips build on its AI ambitions and is developing an AI model to enable this power recommendations for your video ecosystem and user channels in the “technology roadmap” from now to 2026. Last month Meta has included its AI assistant on all its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. The company called its Meta AI “the smartest AI assistant you can exploit for free.”
In addition to spending billions on chips, Zuckerberg reportedly he spent time writing personal emails to researchers at Google’s DeepMind, convincing them to work with him at Meta. The company even offered jobs to candidates without interviews and deviated from its policy of not offering higher salaries to talent who have job offers from competitors, information reported.
