Alex Heath

We’re in the developer-focused section of Meta’s Connect keynote. CTO Andrew Bosworth is onstage and starts with an apology: “We have not made it easy to develop for our platforms. I want you to know that we know that, and we’re sorry.”

He goes on to say that the “ground has constantly been shifting under your feet for years now.” Meta just recently killed Spark, its AR effects platform, without warning and has made more changes than I can count to the Quest’s software.

Zuckerberg just pulled a pair out of a suitcase brought out to him onstage at Meta Connect. He calls them “our first fully functional prototype” and the “most advanced AR glasses the world has ever seen.”

I’ve got a deep dive on Orion you can read and watch below, which includes a demo I did with Zuckerberg last week. And here’s my full interview with Zuckerberg that just dropped on Decoder.

He mentions how “closed” AI labs have been cutting costs since Meta released its Llama model for free and says he thinks open-source AI will win. (Of note: OpenAI rolled out its advanced voice mode to all of its paid subscribers last night, just before Meta rolled out its voice mode today.)

You’ll be able to video chat with a creator’s AI persona. I’ve tried this, and it’s wild. We’re getting a demo of it now onstage. The crowd is into it.

We’re live at Meta’s headquarters at Menlo Park, where Zuckerberg (sans gold chain) and his team are expected to announce new hardware and AI updates.

“We have a lot of stuff to show you,” he says. “A lot of the stuff we’ve been building for a long time — glasses, mixed reality, AI — is happening.”

You can follow along below for more news from the keynote.