Back in July, Mark Zuckerberg made a promise that sounded big, even by his standards. On Meta Platforms' (META) second-quarter earnings call, the Big Tech CEO said the company was building personal artificial intelligence (AI) agents that could work "24/7 on your behalf." He wanted something billions of people could use without a comprehensive setup process.
"It needs to just work, right? It needs to be simple," he told analysts.