Mark Zuckerberg was not invited to a White House meeting on AI

Mark Zuckerberg testified before the US House of Representatives in 2019. Photo: Reuters

Officials from the Biden administration met with leaders of “leading companies in AI innovation” on May 4, including OpenAI, Alphabet/Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft. However, Meta was not on the list.

“The meeting focused on companies that are leaders in their field, particularly in terms of consumer-facing products,” a White House official said. President Joe Biden, who also attended the meeting, told the CEOs that they “have a responsibility to ensure that products are safe before they are deployed or released to the public.”

The White House and Meta have not commented on the information.

The AI ​​race has been accelerating over the past few months, since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late November 2022. Many leading technology corporations have since announced similar products, such as Google with its chatbot Bard in February.

Meta is also pushing its AI efforts, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg declaring that “the single largest investment is in AI research.” The company has long integrated artificial intelligence into its social media services, but the lack of consumer-facing AI products has kept it from gaining traction. Meta announced a language model called LLaMA in February that is similar to GPT-4, but is only available to researchers.

Zuckerberg is investing so heavily in AI that some analysts have expressed concern about Meta’s spending on the technology. The company has purchased large quantities of A100 chips to train generative AI models, each of which costs about $10,000.

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