Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, announced on Facebook that the company plans to invest approximately $60-65 billion this year. The primary investment will be in data centers to support AI growth, a significant increase from last year’s $38-40 billion investment.
Zuckerberg stated that Meta’s goal is to lead in developing AI assistants with over a billion users, including Llama 4 set to launch this year. These AI models are aimed to have advanced cognitive abilities. The company is also expanding its team of AI engineers to research and develop projects in this domain.
As for Meta’s data center plans, they will build a 2-gigawatt capacity data center in the Manchester area, with processing power of about 1 gigawatt expected this year. By the end of the year, there will be more than 1.3 million GPU supports in the data center.
Analysts believe that Zuckerberg’s announcement is a signal to the market that Meta is not backing down in the AI competition, especially after the Trump administration’s Stargate project was announced with OpenAI as a major investor.
Source: Reuters
TLDR: Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta plans to invest $60-65 billion in data centers for AI growth and aims to lead in AI assistant development with over a billion users. They are also expanding their team of AI engineers and building a 2-gigawatt data center with over 1.3 million GPU supports by the end of the year.
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