After laying off thousands, Meta expects to add jobs next year

Zuckerberg said that chief among the company's investment priorities in 2024 will be artificial intelligence, where Meta will hire more engineers and build up its computing resources. Last month, the company launched conversational chatbots that allows users to find information and generate images -- a partial attempt to compete with OpenAI's popular ChatGPT amid an industry-wide boom in generative AI. The company also announced this summer that its new Llama 2 "large language model" -- a highly complex algorithm trained on billions of words scraped from the open internet -- will be available for researchers and companies to use freely.