Overview
- Meta is building a photorealistic 3D avatar of CEO Mark Zuckerberg to hold real-time chats with employees.
- The avatar project is in an early stage and is separate from a different internal agent that assists Zuckerberg with daily tasks.
- Making a lifelike face and full body respond with natural speech in real time needs massive GPU power, and Meta has lined up long-term cloud capacity with CoreWeave and unveiled its Muse Spark model under its Superintelligence Labs.
- Meta has added specialist teams through deals for PlayAI, WaveForms, and Moltbook, with Moltbook’s developers moving into its AI research lab.
- Privacy groups in Europe are challenging Meta’s opt-out use of public posts for AI training, U.S. civil-rights groups warned against face recognition for Meta’s Smart Glasses, and some staff fear automation could displace management work.