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Mark Zuckerberg was so convinced the metaverse was the next big thing that he renamed his company after it.
Meta, as Facebook is now known, bet the farm on virtual reality,
investing more than $80bn into metaverse-related ventures over the past five years alone
—only to abruptly decide it wasn’t the future after all.
In March this year it was announced that Horizon Worlds, Meta’s flagship metaverse venture, would shut down its VR operations in June, continuing only as …

Life at the end of the metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake

How Meta founded FAIR in 2013, fell behind as it was distracted by the metaverse, and is spending an unprecedented amount of money trying to catch up (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91587899/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-personal-s…

Mark Zuckerberg is buying Meta a seat at the AI table. Does he know what to do with it?
After the metaverse bust, Zuckerberg is spending billions to reinvent Meta as an AI giant. First, he’ll have to translate his vision of “personal superintelligence” into products people actually want.

„Let's be clear: it is theoretically possible that AI will take over the world. I'm no fortune teller. But ask yourself, does that idea sound similar to other stories you've heard out of Silicon Valley in the past?
Weren't we all supposed to be living in Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse by now? Wasn't Bitcoin going to replace all the world's currency?“
Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

We have the Metaverse and the Fediverse what shall we do next?