Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms plans to spend as much as $65 billion this year alone to build on the social media companies’ artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives.
In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg declared 2025 “to be a defining year for AI,” adding, “We expect meta-AI to become the leading assistant serving more than 1 billion people, and R&D.” Build AI engineers who will start contributing more and more code to our efforts.”
The founders said Meta plans to invest $60 billion to $65 billion in 2025 and is building massive data centers to power it all, adding, “And we’re looking forward to a number of We have the capital to continue investing throughout the year,” he added.
Meta’s latest move is aimed at strengthening the company’s position against rivals Open Ally and Google in the race to dominate AI.
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Big tech companies are investing tens of millions of dollars to develop their AI infrastructure after the success of Openai’s ChatGPT.
Meta’s announcement comes days after President Donald Trump announced that Openai, Softbank, and Oracle will form a venture called Stargate to invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure across the United States.
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Earlier this month, Microsoft said it plans to spend about $80 billion developing data centers in fiscal year 2025, while Amazon.com said 2025 spending will exceed the estimated $75 billion in 2024. .
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The $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures outlined for 2025 is a significant jump of $38 billion to $40 billion from our estimated spending last year. It also exceeds analysts’ estimates of $525 billion in 2025, according to LSEG data.
Reuters contributed to this report.