Meta commits $60 billion or more to AI infrastructure and capabilities in 2025.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that the tech giant plans to invest at least $60 billion in artificial intelligence in 2025, positioning the company to lead in the technology. "This will be a defining year for AI," Zuckerberg said in a post on his Facebook page. Zuckerberg expects Meta AI to become the top digital assistant, used by more than a billion people, while the company's Llama 4 is positioned to be at the forefront of AI models. Additionally, Meta is creating an AI "engineer" to contribute computer coding to its research and development efforts.
Supporting this ambitious vision, Meta will construct a massive new datacenter to power its AI operations, with Zuckerberg noting that the company is planning $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures this year related to the technology. "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," Zuckerberg said.
Meta's announcement comes just days after US President Donald Trump announced a major competing initiative called Stargate, led by Japanese giant SoftBank and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. Trump said the venture "will invest $500 billion, at least, in AI infrastructure in the United States." However, tech tycoon Elon Musk, a Trump ally and key figure in the newly installed administration despite spending $270 million on the election campaign, cast doubt on the project, posting on his social media platform X that the main investors "don't actually have the money."
Microsoft president Brad Smith has also entered the competition, stating the company was on pace this fiscal year to invest about $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 said in an online post.