Fireside Chat with Meta President and Vice Chair Dina Powell McCormick and U.S. CTO Dr. Ethan Klein

Gosh, what a fabulous audience, Ethan. This is great to be here with you all. It really is.

Sure. Well, first let me just say a huge thank you to everyone in this room. I was reading about many of the participants, and if we really think about this race that we are all working so hard on, and we think about other times in America's history, whether it was the Industrial Revolution, or frankly when the country came together during World War II, it really feels like that kind of a moment again. But the difference is those were big movements that took 10, maybe 20 years. If we're, you know, you're smart enough in this room to know we're talking 3 to 5 are pretty important. And it's one of those things where truly not one sector can do it alone, and the government can't do it alone, and the private sector can't do it alone. But I think the untold heroes are so many of you in this room that are working every single day on the innovations that really fuel the compute needs of hyperscalers, the energy needs across the country. And in the 9 weeks that I've been in this job, I have learned a great, great deal.

Mark Zuckerberg actually set up a new division for us called Meta Compute. I co-head it with our global head of infrastructure and our VP of compute that really works closely with our AI lab. Alex Wang leads that team. And what has been interesting is that when you have such a big partnership with such a huge amount of CAPEX, you really have to go across the company. And so this is the unit that thinks about the capital that's needed, the infrastructure and deployment strategy, and the talent, because so much of this is based on the kind of human talent that you need. And so we, like many of our peers, have a daunting task to invest that capital in a relatively short period of time in the most efficient way possible, and frankly in the most effective way possible. And for us, you know, we were proud yesterday we launched on our journey of models. We launched Meta Muse Spark. And part of what is, I think, exciting about this model for us is that it really encapsulates what superintelligence means, that it's very much about people, not just products. Empowering people, whether they're small business owners, whether they are the workforce of America who are literally building the infrastructure today, and whether it's, you know, again, people in this room that we hope use our model, use our tools. And I'll close just by saying we also feel a daunting responsibility. Between all of our platforms, we reach more than 3.5 billion people a day. And we reach more than 200 million small business owners that actually run their businesses on our platform. And so again, back to that, how are we investing these technologies to empower people to reach their potential? And that's what we've been really focused on.