Zuckerberg began the meeting by emphasizing the urgency of this year's event and stating that Meta will have a clear vision of the trajectory for the future by the end of 2025 with artificial intelligence as the foundation. In particular, the CEO foresees that "highly intelligent and personalized" digital assistants will reach the 1 billion user mark within a year.
Zuckerberg noted that 2025 will be a transitional year for artificial intelligence, as it will start taking over some tasks, including programming. While this may lead to some job cuts, there may also be a need for engineers to optimize AI, which will create new opportunities in other roles.
"After the last several years, we now have an opportunity to have a productive partnership with the United States government, and we're going to take that. I think it's the right thing to do because there are several areas, even if we don't agree on everything, where we have common cause for things that are going to make it so that we can serve our community better, and we can advance the interests of our country together," Zuckerberg stated.
Finally, Zuckerberg also commented on the changes in Meta's position on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies and the cancellation of these programs in response to the changes to the law introduced by the Donald Trump administration.
"The way to think about this is we're in the middle of a pretty rapidly changing policy and regulatory landscape that increasingly views any policy that might advantage any one group of people over another as something that is unlawful, and because of that, we need to adjust, or else we'll just be out of alignment with what the law is saying," Meta's CEO said.
Zuckerberg added that historically, Meta has had a few specific programs that focused on certain underrepresented groups of people, but he believes that companies cannot do things that benefit specific groups, even if they are trying to compensate for other things.