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Beijing time on the evening of September 27, the Meta developer conference "Meta Connect" will begin at 10:00 Pacific time on the 27th (1:00 Beijing time on the 28th). At that time, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the company, will introduce Meta's latest plan to create a "meta universe" to investors.

Meta Connect is Meta's most important event this year, and one of the highlights of the conference is how Zuckerberg will respond to the shift in investor enthusiasm from augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to artificial intelligence.

The event is significant because investors attacked Meta last year for investing heavily in VR and prompted Zuckerberg to fire tens of thousands of employees to continue to fund his meta-universe vision.

For developers, they will keep a close eye on which applications can be developed for Meta's latest hardware devices, such as the next generation of Quest VR headlines, which will be available this fall.

At the same time, investors will look for signs of a return on meta-cosmic bets that have cost the company more than $40 billion since 2021.

The top priority of the day of the conference (Wednesday local time) will involve integrating artificial intelligence virtual assistants into Meta applications, according to two people familiar with the matter. It has been reported that Meta will launch a generative AI chat robot at the Connect conference.

Meta is expected to unveil a new generation of VR headset Quest 3 at tonight's Connect conference and discuss artificial intelligence chatbots and other tools and features. With increasing competition in the market, these tools and features are designed to maintain users' interest in Facebook and Instagram.

This is also the biggest challenge facing Meta today. York am Wurmser, an industry analyst, said: "A lot of efforts around chatbots, stories and other aspects are just to maintain interactive personalization, such as personalized features driven by artificial intelligence. This is also the primary challenge for Meta."

Squeezed by a decline in online advertising and uncertainty in the global economy, Meta has cut more than 20, 000 jobs since November. Zuckerberg calls 2023 the company's "year of efficiency", and while laying off staff, Meta focuses on hiring more technical staff, such as artificial intelligence experts, to focus on Meta's long-term vision.

Artificial intelligence is at the core of this vision. This summer, Meta released the next generation of artificial intelligence big language model Llama 2, which is free for research and commercial use.

Just before the Connect conference, Meta said it was implementing a plan announced early last year to launch mobile and Web versions of its flagship social VR platform, Horizon Worlds. In addition, Meta quietly added legs to its previous virtual reality avatar with only the upper body.

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