Our ambition is to build personal superintelligence, which means putting super intelligence

in the hands of everyone.

Meta's Chief of Global Affairs, Joel Kaplan, on our set at the World Economic Forum in

Davos, Switzerland, where Meta is sharpening its edge as AI dominates both consumer taste and energy demands.

We've got a real lead on wearables, which we think is going to be the next computing technology

that actually brings that personal superintelligence to bear.

And the geopolitics at play in large language models,

how this American company views the AI race against China.

It's the most critical battle that we'll have over the coming years for both our national

and economic security, but that's a battle that not only the U.S., but all of the Western democracies

have a stake in.

I'm CNBC producer Cameron Costa.

Squacpod reports from Davos, 2026.

Metas Joel Kaplan begins right now.

As you know by now, Joe Kernan, Becky Quick, and Andrew Ross Sorkin were at the World Economic Forum in the Alps this week, with world leaders and tech leaders, like this next one.

Joel Kaplan is Mehta's chief global affairs officer, and he had a long career outside of tech before joining Facebook in 2011.

He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and then he served as deputy chief of

staff for President George W. Bush.

When he joined what was then Facebook, he encouraged Mark Zuckerberg to engage with Washington,

growing the company's lobbying organization and then lobbying spent.

And later, he encouraged Zuckerberg to engage directly with President Trump during Trump's first administration.

Now, Meta plans to invest $600 billion in building out AI infrastructure like data centers over the next few years.

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