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- Google CEO Sundar Pichai praised Mark Zuckerberg for Facebook's breakthrough in AI in 2021.
- But Zuckerberg didn't really know what Pichai was referring to.
- The conversation spurred Zuckerberg to start focusing on AI, per Bloomberg.
AI may be a key priority for Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, but that wasn't always the case.
In 2021, Zuckerberg met Google CEO Sundar Pichai at an Allen & Co. conference in Idaho. During their meeting, Pichai expressed his admiration for an AI breakthrough that Facebook had accomplished.