Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said Friday that the tech giant plans to invest at least $60 billion in artificial intelligence in 2025 with the goal of taking the lead in the technology.
“This will be a defining year for AI,” Zuckerberg said in a post on his Facebook page.
According to the post, Zuckerberg expects Meta AI to be the top digital assistant, used by more than a billion people, and the tech firm’s Llama 4 will be at the forefront of AI models.
He explained that Meta is creating an AI “engineer” to contribute computer coding to its research and development efforts.
According to Zuckerberg, Meta will build a massive new datacenter to support its AI ambitions and plans $60 billion to $65 billion of capital expenditures related to the technology this year.
“This is a major effort and will advance our core products and business, unlock historic innovation, and extend American technology leadership for years to come,” he said.
The post comes just days after US President Donald Trump announced a major investment led by Japanese giant SoftBank and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to build infrastructure for artificial intelligence.
Trump said the venture, called Stargate, would “invest at least $500 billion in AI infrastructure in the United States.”
But in a post on his social media platform X, Trump ally and tech tycoon Elon Musk said the main investors “don’t actually have money.”
The comments are a rare example of a divide between the world’s richest man and Trump, with Musk playing a key role in the newly installed administration after spending $270 million on the election campaign.
Meanwhile, Microsoft President Brad Smith has gone on record to say that the company is preparing to invest about $80 billion this fiscal year to build AI datacenters, train AI models, and deploy cloud-based applications around the world. Is in.
“The United States is poised to stand at the forefront of this new technology wave, especially if it redoubles its might and partners effectively internationally,” Smith said in an online post.
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