How did Mark Zuckerberg celebrate the 4th of July? Video of Meta CEO’s 2025 Independence Day bash goes viral
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Mark Zuckerberg (Photo: Instagram/@zuck)Mark Zuckerberg continued his Fourth of July tradition as he went surfing on Friday. This year, the CEO of Meta wore a big inflatable costume of an eagle wearing the American flag. As he put on the costume, he could be heard jokingly asking his crew,
"Is this the stupidest thing we have done so far?"
Mark Zuckerberg's Independence Day celebration tradition began in 2021. He uploaded a video of himself surfing, holding the American flag, while Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver played in the background. While some netizens claimed the video was AI-generated, it became a meme online.
"Mark Zuckerberg posted a video of himself on Instagram wakeboarding while holding an American flag and set to the music of the late John Denver singing Take Me Home, Country Roads. I saw it, so now you have to see it too. I’m sorry. I did not make the rules. Happy #July4th," one netizen wrote.
Mark Zuckerberg posted a video of himself on Instagram wakeboarding while holding an American flag and set to the music of the late John Denver singing “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) July 4, 2021
I saw it, so now you have to see it too. I’m sorry. I did not make the rules.
Happy #July4th pic.twitter.com/FiA9RDP29ZLast year, Zuckerberg continued the tradition and posted another surfing video, this time wearing a tuxedo and holding a can of beer and the American flag. Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA played in the background.
Mark Zuckerberg has recently created his superintelligence team with 11 AI experts
Mark Zuckerberg has been making headlines for trying to create a superintelligence team for Meta. According to WIRED's July 1, 2025, report, the billionaire announced at Meta on Monday (June 30, 2025) that he has hired the AI experts for his team. The media outlet reported the team would be led by Alexandr Wang, and Nat Friedman, who previously worked at Scale AI and GitHub.
Per Mint's July 3, 2025, report, the newly hired AI experts are Trapit Bansal, Shuchao Bi, Ji Lin, Huiwen Chang, Jack Rae, Joel Pobar, Hongy Ren, Pei Sun, Johan Schalkwyk, Jiahuai Yu, and Shengjia Zhao. Notably, they previously worked at OpenAI, Google, and Gemini, and are all immigrants.
According to WIRED's report, on Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent a message to his company staff, calling Meta "distasteful" for hiring AI experts from their company. While it is uncertain how much Mark Zuckerberg's company offered the newly hired team, it is rumored that AI experts were paid up to $300 million.
Sam Altman claimed in his statement that Meta supposedly has been hiring for a long time, and they didn't get OpenAI's top talent, and only recruited people at the bottom of their list.
"Meta has gotten a few great people for sure, but on the whole, it is hard to overstate how much they didn't get their top people and had to go quite far down their list; they have been trying to recruit people for a super long time, and I've lost track of how many people from here they've tried to get to be their Chief Scientist," Altman said in his statement.
In other news, Mark Zuckerberg was allegedly asked to leave the Oval Office when he entered uninvited to a meeting that included multiple military leaders and US President Donald Trump. The Daily Mail reported the news on July 2, 2025, but it is not clear when the alleged incident occurred.
TOPICS: Mark Zuckerberg, 4th of July, Fourth of July, Viral Videos