The guy who renamed Facebook to Meta went long with a blog post this morning about a grandiose AGI-ish vision for artificial intelligence and why his company is so invested in it. It also might help explain why Meta is making huge offers to hire “post-money” AI experts who aren’t completely convinced Meta is the place to be.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that the creation of superintelligent artificial intelligence is “now in sight” and that it will herald a “new era of personal empowerment.”Zuckerberg said that Meta’s approach will be “different from others in the industry” because it will focus on developing AI superintelligence to benefit people’s personal life,