Meta will spend up to $ 65 billion on artificial intelligence in 2025

Meta (DeadIt increases the intensity of artificial intelligence competition. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that the company plans to pump other billions in efforts to develop artificial intelligence, build a huge new data center, and launch the Llama 4 foundation model in the coming months.

The Meta stock increased by less than 1 % after the news.

In a Facebook postZuckerberg said that the company will significantly increase its capital expenditures, saying that Mita would pump between 60 billion dollars to 65 billion dollars in its expansion plans. This is an enormous increase from 38 billion dollars to $ 40 billion, the company said it is planning to spend during its 2024 financial year.

Meta announces the results of its profits on January 29.

In his post, Zuckerberg explained his expectations for 2025, saying that Meta Ai, the company’s artificial intelligence assistant, will serve more than a billion people and that Llama 4 will become the leading and developed model. The CEO also said that Meta will build an artificial intelligence engineer who will start contributing to the code for the company’s research and development efforts.

A large part of the dead expansion plan includes building a database with a capacity of more than 2 GB, which Zuckerberg said will be very large that it will cover a large part of Manhattan. The company plans to complete the construction of 1 GB in 2025 and end the year with 1.3 million graphics processing units that support the development of artificial intelligence. The company did not mention the place where you plan to build the center.

Meta is running an artificial intelligence arms race with its competitors in the Silicon Valley, where technology companies are superior to each other in creating more powerful artificial intelligence models than ever. Unlike other companies, Meta’s Llama Models are open source, which means developers can access and modify the program as they see it appropriate.

However, my competitors are dead do not sit inhabitants. Microsoft (MsftIts partner Openai continues to launch new artificial intelligence updates, including The new artificial intelligence agent for Openaii operator He can perform tasks through his browser on your behalf.

On Tuesday Oracle (Orcl), Openai and SoftBank They announced their Stargate projectIt is an effort worth $ 500 billion to build artificial intelligence databases throughout the United States.

Google (Google,, Google) And Amazon (ScrutinizeAt the same time, it builds its artificial intelligence platforms while investing billions in Anthropic competing for Openai. Earlier this week, Google agreed to invest Another billion dollars in the company. This depends on the $ 2 billion that Google has already invested in the company.

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