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Title: CEO Company: Meta Industry: Technology

Mark has aggressively repositioned Meta as the world’ s leading champion of open-source AI. By releasing the Llama series of models effectively for free, he has upended the business models of closed-source competitors and established Meta’ s architecture as the industry standard for developers. Mark views AI as the underlying engine that will power the next generation of social connection, from smart glasses that perceive the world to AI personas in Instagram and WhatsApp. In 2025, he focused on building massive compute infrastructure, aiming to amass a stockpile of 600,000 H100- equivalent GPUs to train Llama 4 and beyond. His vision of personal superintelligence is to provide every user with a customisable AI agent. Mark argues that open ecosystems are safer and more innovative than walled gardens, positioning Meta’ s strategy as a democratising force against centralised control of AGI.

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