Since the lawsuit centers around who did what for Facebook when, it seems absurd to think that Zuckerberg would publicly acknowledge Saverin with a lawsuit hanging over his head.

He bantered with Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, a director of engineering who ran the project. Boz was Zuckerberg's instructor in a course on artificial intelligence when they were at Harvard.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, who has talked about setting up operations in China, is studying Mandarin.