Meta's year of aggressive AI moves: Here's what you need to know

Kenzie Sagalos has more in today's tech check. Hi Mac. Hey Contessa.So Meta entered 2025 as an AI winner, but as the year wraps, the company's direction has started to look less coherent and very expensive. Insiders and industry experts telling my colleague Jonathan Vanian, the strategy has become scattershot, feeding the perception that Meta has fallen further behind rivals whose models are rapidly gaining adoption. CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened the year predicting Llama would become the most advanced model i ...