Zuckerberg says Meta to spend over $60B to become leading AI provider
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced plans to pump between $60 and $65 billion into the company’s AI efforts, signaling their commitment to become a leading AI provider. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg outlined his vision for Meta's AI noting that 2025 is going to be a defining year.
“I expect Meta AI will be the leading assistant serving more than 1 billion people, Llama 4 will become the leading state-of-the-art model, and we'll build an AI engineer that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts,” he wrote.
The announcement comes amidst a flurry of AI investment announcements from other tech giants, including OpenAI's proposed $500 billion Stargate project. Rivals, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, have also committed to collectively spend over $200 billion on AI development.
Meta's substantial investment will support the deployment of approximately one gigawatt of new compute capacity, encompassing more than 1.3 million GPUs dedicated to training and serving AI models by the end of 2025. While Zuckerberg didn't specify the GPU vendors, Meta confirmed it will use a "mix of commercially available GPUs and our in-house silicon," referring to its MTIA chips.
Meta has previously utilized Nvidia's Hopper and AMD's Instinct MI300-series GPUs and has also developed its own silicon for recommender models. However, custom chips specifically for LLMs or diffusion models have yet to be announced.
Beyond hardware, Meta is also investing in physical infrastructure. Construction began last month on a massive two-gigawatt-plus data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana. This $10 billion facility, spanning four million square feet, is being built in phases with completion projected for 2030. While Meta is exploring nuclear power options, the initial phase will be powered by combined-cycle combustion turbine plants with a total capacity of 2,262 megawatts.
Zuckerberg emphasized Meta's long-term commitment to AI investment, stating, "We have the capital to continue investing in the years ahead." He added that this "massive effort" will "drive our core products and business, unlock historic innovation, and extend American technology leadership."
