Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday that Meta plans to build its own Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which is an artificial intelligence that can achieve or surpass human intelligence in almost all fields. He said the company plans to open up this intelligence to developers in the future. Zuckerberg posted a video on Meta's social network Threads, stating that more progress needs to be made in all aspects of AI in order to provide the best AI for chatbots, creators, and businesses. "We are increasingly seeing that the next generation of services needs to be built with complete general intelligence," he said. "Our long-term vision is to build general intelligence, open-source it responsibly, and make it widely available for everyone to benefit," he added in a post on Threads. To handle this type of computing power, Zuckerberg said Meta expects to have around 350,000 NVIDIA AI chips by the end of this year. The company also plans to expand and integrate its two main AI research teams, FAIR and GenAI, to accelerate its work, Zuckerberg said. He believes that the company's vision for AI is connected to the metaverse. "By the end of this century, I think many people will be using devices like the smart glasses we are building in collaboration with Ray-Ban Meta to communicate with AI," he said. Meta's latest Ray-Ban glasses are powered by artificial intelligence and allow users to make phone calls, send messages, and take videos without using their hands. Zuckerberg's latest statement is one of his biggest commitments to doubling down on AI. Large tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon continue to share new AI tools and visions, sparking a new AI race. However, some technology skeptics have expressed concerns about the potential unintended harm caused by these big companies and new participants like OpenAI. Earlier this year, Zuckerberg said Meta is creating a new "top-tier product group" to "accelerate" the company's work on AI tools. Since then, Meta has released tools and information aimed at helping users understand how AI affects the content they see on its platforms. Dipanjan Chatterjee, an analyst at Forrester Research, said the company's shift towards AI is not surprising as it is a trend for the industry to embrace AI. However, considering that Meta recently rebranded and fully committed to the concept of the metaverse, this shift is noteworthy. He said, "The saying 'every company is now a tech company' has evolved into 'every company is now an AI company.' It's clear that since Facebook became Meta, interest in the metaverse has significantly diminished, so it's not surprising that the company is turning to AI to regain some lost shine."