personal superintelligence
In plain wordsMark Zuckerberg's term for a future AI far smarter than people that would serve each person as their own helper, rather than one central system doing everyone's work.
A vision of superintelligencesuperintelligence, n.: A mind, usually imagined as an AI, that would leave even the cleverest people far behind in nearly every kind of thinking, not just in one game or skill. None is known to exist. as something each person owns and directs: an assistant with intimate knowledge of its user's life and aims that helps them create, learn, stay connected and pursue their own goals, reached mostly through wearable devices such as AI glasses that perceive the world from the wearer's point of view. Meta announced it in July 2025 as the mission of Meta Superintelligence LabsMeta Superintelligence Labs, prop. n.: A division Meta created in 2025 to pursue superintelligence, gathering all of the company's AI teams under new leaders recruited in an expensive hiring campaign., setting it against a centralized route in which superintelligence takes over all economically valuable work and humanity lives off what it produces. The same letter acknowledged that superintelligence brings new safety risks and signaled that Meta would be more cautious about what it open-sourcesopen-weight model, n.: An AI model whose trained internal numbers are published for anyone to download and run on their own computers, even if the data and code used to make it stay private.. Critics regard the phrase as a grand label for consumer assistants and AI companionsAI companion, n.: A chatbot designed to be a friend, partner or confidant rather than a tool: it remembers you, has a personality and keeps up an ongoing relationship..
Meta pitches personal superintelligence as something you wear on your face, not something that replaces your job.
Origin
Introduced by Mark Zuckerberg in a letter titled 'Personal Superintelligence', published on Meta's website on 30 July 2025, weeks after the company formed Meta Superintelligence Labs and recruited researchers from rival laboratories with exceptionally large pay offers.
Usage note
One of several competing framings of what frontier laboratories are building; compare Microsoft AI's humanist superintelligencehumanist superintelligence, n.: Microsoft AI's name for very advanced AI that is deliberately kept limited, controllable and aimed at specific human problems such as medicine and energy, rather than all-powerful general systems. and the image of a country of geniuses in a datacentercountry of geniuses in a datacenter, phr.: A phrase for future AI so capable that one data center could hold the equivalent of millions of Nobel-level experts, working faster than people on any problem..
Related
- superintelligencesuperintelligence, n.: A mind, usually imagined as an AI, that would leave even the cleverest people far behind in nearly every kind of thinking, not just in one game or skill. None is known to exist.
- Meta Superintelligence LabsMeta Superintelligence Labs, prop. n.: A division Meta created in 2025 to pursue superintelligence, gathering all of the company's AI teams under new leaders recruited in an expensive hiring campaign.
- humanist superintelligencehumanist superintelligence, n.: Microsoft AI's name for very advanced AI that is deliberately kept limited, controllable and aimed at specific human problems such as medicine and energy, rather than all-powerful general systems.
- AI companionAI companion, n.: A chatbot designed to be a friend, partner or confidant rather than a tool: it remembers you, has a personality and keeps up an ongoing relationship.
- artificial superintelligenceartificial superintelligence, n.: Superintelligence in machine form: AI that would outthink the best humans at nearly every intellectual task. Often shortened to ASI and pictured as the stage after human-level AI.
- country of geniuses in a datacentercountry of geniuses in a datacenter, phr.: A phrase for future AI so capable that one data center could hold the equivalent of millions of Nobel-level experts, working faster than people on any problem.
Sources
- Zuckerberg, M. (2025). Personal Superintelligence. Meta, 30 July 2025. meta.com/superintelligence
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artificial superintelligenceartificial superintelligence, n.: Superintelligence in machine form: AI that would outthink the best humans at nearly every intellectual task. Often shortened to ASI and pictured as the stage after human-level AI., Mark ZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg, prop. n.: The American co-founder and chief executive of Facebook's parent company Meta, who made it a major AI developer that released its Llama models for anyone to download., humanist superintelligencehumanist superintelligence, n.: Microsoft AI's name for very advanced AI that is deliberately kept limited, controllable and aimed at specific human problems such as medicine and energy, rather than all-powerful general systems.