Plan includes open-weight models, community funding and board oversight
Mark Zuckerberg’s essay says Meta will return to releasing models with open weights, allowing anyone to download their parameters. Meta paused that approach after reorganizing its artificial-intelligence operations last year.
Zuckerberg also supports allowing distillation, a practice in which developers query competing models to copy what those systems know. “Some have tried to frame distillation as harmful, but I think it is important to protect the principle that you can learn from anything you can observe,” he wrote.
The essay addresses the effects of Meta’s infrastructure expansion on communities. “Sustainable infrastructure development means that communities must benefit significantly from each project,” Zuckerberg wrote. He cited Richland Parish, La., where schoolteachers received $50,000 bonus checks funded by increased economic activity near Meta’s Hyperion data-center campus.
Meta will create a $1 billion “Future Is For Everyone Fund” to directly support communities around its facilities, according to the essay.
The Trump administration is implementing an executive order that establishes a voluntary 30-day review period for new models. Zuckerberg wrote that the period is “quite a meaningful amount of time” given the pace of development.
He called instead for “a close proactive collaboration between frontier labs and the government rather than a rigid process and review timeline that is followed in all cases.” Zuckerberg also said artificial-intelligence labs “should share intermediate training checkpoints of new models for government use and review rather than waiting until training has completed.”
Zuckerberg said Meta is adopting a governance structure that gives its board of directors authority to determine whether new models comply with safety criteria approved by the board. He wrote, “I do not think it is in my, Meta’s, or the world’s best interests for me or anyone else to be a sole decision maker on how superintelligence is deployed.”
He urged other companies to adopt comparable structures and called for “an industrywide version of this process.”
The essay also develops Zuckerberg’s idea of “personal superintelligence,” a term he has used to describe Meta’s AI vision. He said users, rather than model developers, should decide the systems’ values, contrasting that position with approaches taken by other companies.
Zuckerberg further proposed “a fully private mode for personal agents where even Meta or any other service provider cannot see or grant access to your information.”