The Next Big Thing Beyond Agentic AI? How Smart Glasses Could Be Meta’s Masterstroke.

The Next Big Thing Beyond Agentic AI? How Smart Glasses Could Be Meta's Masterstroke.

Are chatbots yesterday’s news? Kind of. OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in late 2023 ignited a frenzy to implement generative AI that’s still ongoing. However, the future of artificial intelligence (AI) won’t be limited to merely having a conversation with a computer.

Anyone who listened to Meta Platforms(NASDAQ: META) fourth-quarter earnings call a few weeks ago got a sneak peek at what AI advances could be on the way. In the near term, agentic AI is likely to be tremendously important. But what’s the next big thing beyond agentic AI? And what could it mean for Meta?

Before we discuss what could follow agentic AI, we should first understand how big a deal AI agents could be. What exactly are AI agents? In a nutshell, they’re software programs that use AI to interact with people and systems to perform tasks needed to achieve goals set by humans.

Meta Platforms’ CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained how he envisions AI agents working during his company’s Q4 call. Zuckerberg described a scenario in which a person gives an AI agent direction and then leaves. Meanwhile, the AI agent on its own performs the task. He mentioned examples including writing an app or optimizing software code.

2025 looks to be the year of AI agents — or at least the year they first take center stage in a major way. Zuckerberg said that he thinks the technology will become “more and more prevalent over the next year or two.” He added, “I also expect that 2025 will be the year when it becomes possible to build an AI engineering agent that has coding and problem-solving abilities of around a good mid-level engineer.”

As you might imagine, agentic AI is likely to present a massive market opportunity. Zuckerberg believes that AI agents that can code as well as many human programmers will “be a profound milestone and potentially one of the most important innovations in history.” He also thinks agentic AI will be a huge market over time.

Meta’s Llama 4 large language model (LLM) could be one of the early leaders in agentic AI. Llama is already the most widely used AI model. Meta AI, which is based on Llama, has close to 600 million monthly active users. That makes it the “world’s most used AI assistant,” according to Meta. The company plans to launch Lllama 4 this year with several releases. This latest version of Meta’s LLM will include agentic AI capabilities that benefit individuals and businesses.

Agentic AI will only be a stepping stone, though. The next big thing in AI just might be smart glasses.

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