'The goal is not to replace humans': new Meta AI research chief Dawn Song says the next frontier is AI agents that are "economically valuable"
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Meta’s AI leadership is explicitly reframing the frontier as agents that prove economic value, not benchmark wins. For enterprise buyers, this is a green light to demand hard ROI metrics and workflow-level outcomes from any agent pitch this year.
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