Watcher.Guru says Mark Zuckerberg claims Meta has caught up with OpenAI and Anthropic and rejects calls to slow AI, citing an FT interview
JUST IN: Mark Zuckerberg says $META has caught up with OpenAI and Anthropic in the AI race and rejects calls to slow down development.
Context
The CEO of one of the biggest AI spenders is declaring Meta a frontier lab and pushing back on coordinated slowdowns, just as other lab leaders call for one.
Watcher.Guru's post is secondhand and names no source; the claim matches a Financial Times interview with Zuckerberg published the same day. Meta launched its Muse Wonder models on October 12. In September, Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman called for coordinated efforts to pace AI development.
Deep dive
On October 12, Watcher.Guru posted: JUST IN: Mark Zuckerberg says $META has caught up with OpenAI and Anthropic in the AI race and rejects calls to slow down development. The post did not link a source.
The firsthand source appears to be the Financial Times, which published an interview the same day. According to the FT, Zuckerberg said Meta has caught up with rivals at the frontier of AI, committed to further vast spending to challenge Anthropic and OpenAI, and rejected calls to slow development. The full FT article is paywalled, so the deck does not quote it further.
The interview coincided with the launch of Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. WIRED reported that Meta says the largest version beats Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and ranks just below Claude Opus 5.5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, while leading on some specialized benchmarks.
Zuckerberg's position on slowdowns is not new. In a September interview with NBC News, he said he does not think the industry needs some kind of industrywide coordination, and that each lab should take the time it needs internally when it sees issues. NBC reported that this cut against calls from Amodei and Altman for coordinated action.
What to expect next
Watch whether independent evaluations back Meta's claim of reaching the frontier, and whether Meta's promised safety report for Muse Wonder appears soon.
Also watch how Anthropic and OpenAI respond to Zuckerberg's rejection of a coordinated slowdown, and whether governments push the idea further after Amodei and Altman briefed the UN Security Council on pacing AI, and whether lawmakers in Washington take up any of their proposals.