Early Facebook investor says Mark Zuckerberg has been ‘revitalized’ [Video]

Venture capitalist and early Facebook investor Jim Breyer said Wednesday that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been reenergized by the company’s recent push into artificial intelligence.

“Post election I’ve traded many messages and spoken to him,” Breyer told CNBC’s Sara Eisen on the sidelines of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “He’s very revitalized.”

Breyer knows Zuckerberg well, having first invested in Facebook in 2005, when it was a fledgling social media site led by a 21-year-old Harvard dropout. It turned out to be one of the most lucrative investments in the history of the venture industry. Breyer said Zuckerberg’s “original vision” was to connect billions of users through the social media platform.

Last year, Zuckerberg made developing and investing in generative AI one of Meta’s top priorities, and the company said it plannedto spend billions more on AI infrastructure. Meta, which is building the Llama family of large language …