Zuckerberg Predicts: Billions of People Will Have Personal AI Agents in the Next Five Years

According to TechCrunch, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated during the July 29 quarterly earnings conference call that within the next five years, billions of people will possess personal AI agents capable of representing users to achieve goals around the clock, with application scenarios covering finance, health, interpersonal relationships, and family management. He also noted that messaging platforms such as WhatsApp will play an increasingly important role in the era of multi-agent interaction. Currently, Meta's enterprise AI agents have been adopted by over one million businesses on WhatsApp and Messenger. However, Meta's free cash flow for this quarter was only $784 million, a sharp 91% decline from $8.55 billion in the same period last year, primarily dragged down by AI infrastructure investments; Meta's stock price also fell nearly 10% following the earnings report. Additionally, Meta's Reality Labs incurred a loss of approximately $4.6 billion this quarter, with cumulative losses reaching about $88 billion since 2021. This week, Meta announced a partnership with BlackRock to jointly build a data center costing $14 billion in El Paso, Texas.