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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Strikes Back After Stargate and Raises AI Spending Guidance
By
Tae Kim
Published: Jan. 24, 2025 at 10:41?a.m. ET
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Meta Platforms isn’t backing down in the artificial intelligence arms race. The company is all in.
On Friday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is planning to invest $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures this year while growing the size of the company’s AI teams “significantly.” Last October, Meta said it expected 2024 capex to come in the range of $38 billion to $40 billion.
“This will be a defining year for AI,” he wrote in a Facebook post. “In 2025, I expect Meta AI will be the leading assistant serving more than 1 billion people, Llama 4 will become the leading state of the art model, and we’ll build an AI engineer that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts.”
The executive also said Meta is building a 2 gigawatt+ data center and will end this year with more than 1.3 million graphics processing units.
“This is a massive effort, and over the coming years it will drive our core products and business, unlock historic innovation, and extend American technology leadership,” he wrote.
Zuckerberg’s announcement comes days after President Donald Trump and executives from OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announced the creation of a new initiative called The Stargate Project that intends to spend $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure in the U.S.
The battle of AI dominance has just begun.
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