As a rebellious young founder, Mark Zuckerberg transformed the humble grey hoodie into the unofficial garb of Silicon Valley. Now entering middle age, much has been made of Zuckerberg’s wardrobe update. These days, he dons gold chains and baggy T-shirts day to day, alongside outfits that would fit in at a Vanity Fair gala.
Less appreciated is the most important aspect of the New Mark Zuckerberg: an eagerness to fight. Be it Elon Musk in a cage or Australian publishers looking for cash, the CEO has discovered a newfound willingness to throw hands.
On Wednesday, Zuckerberg published a 2,200-word explanation of Meta’s enormous bet on open-source AI. In it, he challenged not only OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, but he had fighting words for Apple as well.
“One of my formative experiences has been building our services constrained by what Apple will let us build on their platforms,” Zuckerberg wrote, criticising “the way they tax developers, the arbitrary rules they apply, and all the product innovations they block from shipping”.
