In a 6,500-word essay, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out a bid to make superintelligent AI broadly accessible while positioning the company at the center of the technology’s rollout. He pledged free or low-cost AI tools, including personal agents with a “fully private mode,” and argued AI will shift work rather than eliminate it. To address local backlash over infrastructure, Zuckerberg announced a $1 billion “Future is for Everyone Fund” for communities hosting Meta data centers and said the company’s $145 billion 2026 capital budget will largely go to those facilities. He signaled Meta will resume releasing open-source models with open weights and urged Washington to ease barriers for U.S. developers, proposing closer government–industry cooperation on safety by sharing intermediate model checkpoints and working with law enforcement to deter misuse. The effort underscores intensifying competition among hyperscalers and the policy scrutiny that accompanies it.
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