CLAIM #41934 · Meta Platforms Inc. (META) · 2025Q2 earnings call · Jul 30, 2025

“I would expect that we will continue to produce and share leading open source models.”

Mark Zuckerberg · CEO

How to check this claim

Look at: Release of new open source/open-weight AI models by Meta (e.g., Llama family or successors)

It came true if: At least one new open-source model released and publicly shared by Meta

Where: Company announcements, Meta AI blog, or developer/model hub releases (e.g., Hugging Face, llama.meta.com)

Knowable after: 2026-07-30

In context

“g the ROI that we deliver. Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Doug Anmuth with JPMorgan. Douglas Till Anmuth: One for Mark and one for Susan. Mark, Meta has been a huge proponent of open source AI, has your thinking changed here at all, just as you pursue superintelligence and push for even greater returns on your significant infrastructure investments? And then, Susan, your comments on '26 CapEx suggest more than $100 billion of spend next year potentially. Do you continue to expect to finance all this yourself? Or could there be opportunities to partner here? Mark Elliot Zuckerberg: Yes. I mean on open source, I don't think that our thinking has particularly changed on this. We've always open sourced some of our models and not open sourced everything that we've done. So I would expect that we will continue to produce and share leading open source models. I also think that there are a couple of trends that are playing out. One is that we're getting models that are so big that they're just not practical for a lot of other people to use. So it's -- we would kind of wrestle with whether it's productive or helpful to share that or if that's really just primarily helping competitors or something like that. So I think that there's that concern. And then obviously, as you approach real superintelligence, I think there is a whole different set of safety concerns that I think we need to take very seriously, that I wrote about in my note this morning. But I think the bottom line is, I would expect that we will continue open sourcing work. I expect us to continue to be a leader there. And I also expect us to continue to not open source everything tha”

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SEC filings for META ↗ · Quote is verbatim from the 2025Q2 earnings call.