White House Snubs Mark Zuckerberg By Leaving Him Off The List For Its AI Summit With Tech Leaders
© Drew Angerer/Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta. Drawing by Angerer/Getty Images- The Biden administration will meet with tech company CEOs to discuss artificial intelligence.
- However, a White House official told a CNN reporter that Meta was not invited.
- The meeting focused on companies "at the forefront of AI innovation," officials said.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg was notably absent from a meeting with White House officials to discuss AI development.
The Biden administration met Thursday with CEOs of companies on the "front lines of AI innovation" as regulators around the world began scrutinizing the new technology. OpenAI, Alphabet, Anthropic and Microsoft are all on the White House list.
A White House official told CNN reporter Donald Judd that Meta was not invited.
"Thursday's meeting focused on companies that are currently leaders in the space," the official said. "Especially on the consumer side of the product."
The AI arms race has accelerated in recent months. The launch of ChatGPT OpenAI in November sparked fierce competition from tech companies like Google, which launched its conversational rival AI Bard in February to make up for it.
While Meta has accelerated its push into AI, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying in March that the company's "biggest single investment is in advancing AI," the lack of consumer-facing AI products makes them less visible in the space.
In February, the company introduced researchers to LLaMA, a large language model similar to the GPT-4 model that powers the generative AI chatbot OpenAI.
Zuckerberg has reportedly invested so heavily in AI that some analysts have expressed concern about how much the company is spending on the technology. Meta bought a lot of Nvidia chips to train new generative AI models. The tokens could cost around $10,000 each.
The battle for AI supremacy has raised concerns among regulators about the risks posed by the technology.
The White House said Thursday that President Joe Biden was "present" at the meeting to inform attending CEOs that they have "a critical responsibility to ensure that their product is safe and secure before distribution or release."
Meta and the White House did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
