Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said the tech giant plans to invest at least US$60 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) this year, aiming to lead in the technology.
“This will be a defining year for AI,” Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook.
Zuckerberg expects Meta AI to be the top digital assistant, used by more than a billion people, and for the tech firm’s Llama 4 to be at the forefront of AI models, he wrote.
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Meta is creating an AI “engineer” to contribute computer coding to its research and development efforts, he added.
Meta would construct a massive new datacenter to power its AI ambitions and is planning US$60 billion to US$65 billion in capital expenditures this year related to the technology, Zuckerberg said.
“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 said.
The announcement comes just days after US President Donald Trump announced a major investment to build infrastructure for AI led by Japanese giant Softbank and ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
Trump said the venture, called Stargate, “will invest US$500 billion, at least, in AI infrastructure in the United States.”
However, in a post on his social media platform X, Trump ally and tech tycoon Elon Musk said the main investors “don’t actually have the money.”
The comment marked a rare instance of a split between the world’s richest man and Trump, with Musk playing a key role in the newly installed administration after spending US$270 million on the election campaign.
Meanwhile, Microsoft president Brad Smith has gone on record saying the company was on pace this fiscal year to invest about US$80 billion to build out AI datacenters, train AI models and deploy cloud-based applications around the world.
“The United States is poised to stand at the forefront of this new technology wave, especially if it doubles down on its strengths and effectively partners internationally,” Smith wrote online.
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