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Tech giant Meta has announced plans to invest between $60 billion and $65 billion to enhance its artificial intelligence infrastructure and drive innovation.
In a Facebook post on Friday, Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, outlined the company’s strategy to expand AI capabilities, strengthen its core offerings, and build large-scale infrastructure to support cutting-edge developments.
“We’re planning to invest $60-65 billion in capital expenditures this year while also significantly growing our AI teams,” Zuckerberg stated.
He added that Meta has the financial capacity to sustain these investments in the coming years, emphasizing that the effort will drive innovation, boost core products, and reinforce American leadership in AI technology.
As part of this initiative, Meta is constructing a data center with over 2 gigawatts of power capacity large enough to cover a significant portion of Manhattan. The company is also developing an AI system designed to contribute to research and development by writing code and assisting in software creation.
“This will be a defining year for AI,” Zuckerberg said. “In 2025, I expect Meta AI to be the leading assistant, serving over 1 billion people. Llama 4 will be the state-of-the-art model, and our AI engineer will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts.”
Meanwhile, the surge in AI investment follows the success of platforms like ChatGPT, which have spurred widespread AI adoption across industries. Other tech giants are making similar moves, with Microsoft committing $80 billion to AI and cloud infrastructure, while Google continues expanding its AI-focused cloud division.
