Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is shifting gears on AI openness.
He revealed plans to be more cautious about open sourcing Meta’s next wave of AI models as the company pushes toward “superintelligence.” The long-standing promise that Llama models would be fully open source now sounds less certain.
Zuckerberg wrote: 
“We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible.”
“That said, superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns. We’ll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source.”
Meta has historically touted Llama’s openness to stand apart from rivals like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and xAI. But the new line hints Meta might restrict its top-tier AI tech to control safety and perhaps monetize more aggressively, especially as it races to outpace GPT-4.
The pivot follows massive investments. Since June 2025, Meta has poured $14.3 billion into Scale AI, merged efforts into Meta Superintelligence Labs, and snapped up top AI talent. But test on the latest Llama model, Behemoth, has paused as the company reportedly focuses on closed models instead.
Zuckerberg’s new vision is all about “personal superintelligence” powering devices like AR glasses and VR headsets.
He said:
“Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices.”
Meta’s spokesperson insisted the company still supports open source AI in principle but plans a mix of open and closed models going forward.
“Our position on open source AI is unchanged,” the spokesperson said.
“We plan to continue releasing leading open source models. We haven’t released everything we’ve developed historically and we expect to continue training a mix of open and closed models going forward.”
The move signals Meta’s evolving AI strategy — less open by default, with safety and product control leading the charge as it builds toward personal AI superintelligence.
