Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta will spend up to $65 billion in 2025 to develop its artificial intelligence projects, aiming to enhance its competitiveness in the AI field and surpass competitors such as OpenAI and Google . This move marks Meta's huge investment in artificial intelligence technology and also indicates that AI technology will profoundly change the digital world in the future. Zuckerberg said Meta plans to develop an AI engineer and plans to provide AI assistant services to more than 1 billion users by 2025, and the Llama4 model will become the industry-leading cutting-edge model. This grand plan will rely on the large data center under construction by Meta.
Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta will invest up to $65 billion in 2025 to enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) projects.
He posted on Facebook that 2025 will be a key year for artificial intelligence, and Meta's AI assistant is expected to serve more than 1 billion users, and the Llama4 model will become the industry's leading cutting-edge model. In addition, Meta plans to develop an AI engineer who can gradually contribute code to the company's R&D work.
Zuckerberg revealed that Meta is building a large data center to support this grand plan. He stressed that the company has the financial strength to continue to invest and will maintain this investment momentum in the next few years. Meta's new move aims to strengthen its market position with competitors such as OpenAI and Google, which have invested billions of dollars in the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced plans to invest about $80 billion in the 2025 fiscal year to build data centers, while Amazon said its spending in 2025 will be higher than $75 billion in 2024. At the same time, former President Trump also announced that OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle will jointly establish a project called "Stargate", which plans to invest $500 billion in the United States to build artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Meta's latest move shows its ambitions in the AI competition, especially driven by its AI chatbot, Ray-Ban smart glasses and an open source model that makes it free to use by consumers and most businesses Its Llama AI model. The planned capital expenditure of $60 billion to $65 billion in 2025 is a significant increase from the company's forecast of $38 billion to $40 billion last year, and also exceeds analysts' forecast for $50.25 billion in 2025.
Meta's decisions will undoubtedly attract widespread attention in the fierce competition in the field of artificial intelligence, especially in the context of rapid AI technology, how the future vision of Zuckerberg and his team will change the landscape of the digital world is worth waiting for.
Meta's huge investment in artificial intelligence highlights the core position of AI technology in the future technological development. How this huge amount of money will be converted into actual results and whether Meta can stand out in the fierce competition will be the focus of attention in the future.