Threads — which launched in 2023 as Zuckerberg sought to directly compete with his longtime rival Elon Musk — moved within striking distance of overtaking X, the site formerly known as Twitter, according to data compiled by market research firm Similarweb and reported by TechCrunch on Tuesday.

Before we get to today’s column about Cognition buying Windsurf, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday spoke to Jessica Lessin, our editor in chief, for the inaugural episode of TITV, a new daily tech show,

I’m focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry,” Meta’s CEO said in a post regarding the superintelligence effort.

Two years in, Threads is starting to look more and more like the most viable challenger to X. It passed 350 million monthly users earlier this year and Mark Zuckerberg has predicted it could be Meta's next billion-user app.

Mark Zuckerberg is trying to psych out his rivals in artificial intelligence. That’s one interpretation of his Threads post on Monday, declaring that Meta is “going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars” on AI computing capacity to build “superintelligence”—a new buzzword for the most

Instagram’s new app Threads drew 115.1 million daily mobile users, closing the gap on Elon Musk’s X, which saw 132 million.

Meta will invest in "hundreds of billions of dollars" in artificial intelligence with the world's first supercluster online next year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday.