Nat Friedman officially joins Meta to build AI products for billions of users

Summary

Nat Friedman, former GitHub CEO and prominent angel investor, officially joined Meta this week to build AI products for mass-market use. Friedman announced the move on social media, saying his role is to make AI products that billions of people love to use. He is positioning himself in the application layer rather than infrastructure. Meta is signaling its intent to compete in consumer-facing AI products by leveraging the company's scale and resources to reach a global audience.