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Riffing on what he sees ahead for the future of AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview published Thursday that he deeply believes that there will not be "just one AI." Touting the value of open source to put AI tools into many people's hands, Zuckerberg took a moment to disparage the efforts of unnamed competitors who he sees as less than open, adding that they seem to think they're "creating God." "It's almost as if they kind of think they're creating God or something and … it's just — that's not what we're doing," he said.
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