Mark Zuckerberg stated Monday that Meta would spend a whole lot of billions of {dollars} to construct a number of large AI knowledge facilities for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a know-how that he has chased with a expertise battle for high AI engineers.
The social media large is among the many giant know-how corporations which have chased high-profile offers and doled out multi-million-dollar pay packages in current months to fast-track work on machines that may outthink people on most duties.
Its first multi-gigawatt knowledge heart, dubbed Prometheus, is predicted to return on-line in 2026, whereas one other, referred to as Hyperion, will be capable of scale as much as 5 gigawatts over the approaching years, Zuckerberg stated in a submit on his Threads social media platform.
We’re constructing a number of extra titan clusters as nicely. Simply one in every of these covers a major a part of the footprint of Manhattan,” the billionaire CEO stated.
He additionally pointed to a report from trade publication SemiAnalysis that Meta was on monitor to be the primary AI lab to convey a gigawatt-plus supercluster on-line.
Zuckerberg touted the energy within the firm’s core promoting enterprise to justify the huge spending amid investor issues on whether or not the expenditure would repay.
“We have the capital from our business to do this,” he stated.
Meta shares had been buying and selling 1% greater. The inventory has risen greater than 20% thus far this 12 months.
The corporate, which generated almost $165 billion in income final 12 months, reorganized its AI efforts final month underneath a brand new division referred to as Superintelligence Labs after setbacks with its Llama 4 mannequin and key employees departures.
It’s betting that the division would generate new money flows from the Meta AI app, image-to-video advert instruments and sensible glasses.
D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria stated Meta was investing aggressively in AI because the know-how has already boosted its advert enterprise by permitting it to promote extra adverts and at greater costs.
“But at this scale, the investment is more oriented to the long-term competition to have the leading AI model, which could take time to materialize,” Luria stated.
In current weeks, Zuckerberg has personally led an aggressive expertise raid for the Meta Superintelligence Labs, which shall be led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and ex-GitHub chief Nat Friedman, after Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale.
Meta had raised its 2025 capital expenditure to between $64 billion and $72 billion in April, aiming to bolster the corporate’s place in opposition to rivals OpenAI and Google.
