It seems Zuckerberg now wants US military contracts

While Meta is mired in antitrust proceedings threatening to lead to its dismantling, Mark Zuckerberg is desperately tightening his ties with the Trump administration, which he has been trying to seduce for several months in the hope of securing highly lucrative military contracts.

New: Meta is recruiting former national security officials to bolster its military ambitions, months after allowing its Llama AI model to be used for military use.www.forbes.com/sites/davidj…

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Mark Zuckerberg has made one strategic rapprochement gesture after another towards Donald Trump, combining financial initiatives, internal decisions and political signals: a million-dollar donation at his inauguration in January, a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, the dismantling of Facebook’s fact-checking program, the removal of Meta’s diversity team, the appointment of people close to Trump to the board of directors, and the purchase of a house in Washington D.C.

All the indications are that he is now focusing all his efforts on winning military contracts to promote his own artificial intelligence technologies, in direct competition with those of OpenAI.

According to Forbes, Meta has recently recruited former Pentagon officials to support Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitions: to win lucrative government contracts by directing Llama artificial intelligence towards military intelligence uses.

Meta, which is leading this sustained recruitment campaign, is banking in particular on its Llama artificial intelligence model, initially designed for civilian use, but now oriented towards military applications in order to appeal to defense and intelligence agencies.

Clearly in seduction mode, Meta is also looking to recruit policy experts linked to national security, including a position specifically designed to manage relations with the White House. The company would preferably target profiles with security clearance and Pentagon experience.

Meta recently hired Francis Brennan, a former advisor to Donald Trump, to head up its strategic communications in Washington.

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