Meta (Meta) Return the heat on the IA competition. Friday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company planned to pay billions of people more in its efforts to develop artificial intelligence, to build a new massive data center and to launch its LLAMA 4 Foundation model in the coming months .
Meta Stock increased by less than 1% after the news.
In a Facebook publicationZuckerberg said that the company would considerably increase its capital expenses, saying that Meta would pay $ 65 billion to $ 65 billion in its expansion plans. It is a huge increase of $ 38 billion to $ 40 billion that the company said it was planning to spend in its 2024 fiscal year.
Meta reports the results on January 29.
In his article, Zuckerberg presented his expectations for 2025, saying that Meta Ai, the company’s AI assistant, will serve more than a billion people and that Llama 4 will become the main peak model. The CEO also said that Meta will build an AI engineer who will begin to contribute to the code for research and development efforts.
A large part of Meta’s expansion plan includes the construction of a data center of more than 2 gigawatt in Louisiana which, according to Zuckerberg, will be so large that it would cover a huge part of Manhattan. The company plans to have 1 construction gigawatt completed in 2025 and finish the year with a huge development of 1.3 million GPUs. However, the company did not say where it planned to build the center.
Meta is in an AI arms race with its rivals of Silicon Valley, while technological companies work to surpass themselves in the creation of more and more powerful AI models. Unlike other companies, Meta’s Llama models are open source, which means that developers can access and adjust the software as they see fit.
However, Meta’s rivals are not seated. Microsoft (Msft) and his partner Openai continues to repel new updates of AI The new operator operator agent AI This can do tasks via your own browser for you.
And Tuesday, Oracle (Orcl), Openai and SoftBank announced their Stargate projectAn effort of $ 500 billion to build AI data centers in the United States.
Google (Goog,, Googl) and Amazon (Amzn), on the other hand, build their respective AI platforms while investing billions in the anthropic Openai Rival. Earlier this week, Google agreed to invest An additional $ 1 billion in the company. This is based on the previous 2 billion dollars, Google has already invested in the company.
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