Mark Zuckerberg is burning billions to chase the holy grail of AI
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Mark Zuckerberg is burning billions to chase the holy grail of AI
The Meta AI logo appears on a smartphone screen and as the background on a laptop screen in this photo illustration in Athens, Greece, on July 24, 2025. Meta states it can spend as much as $72 billion on capital expenditures this year, with a focus on AI and the data centers used to train and run the models. | Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Companies in the AI race are barreling toward a new goalpost: so-called superintelligence, or…
Unsplash. Meta fired or reorganized more than six “veterans” AI experts after restructuring its division into four teams. One of the newly recruited investigators, Rishabh Agarwal, resigned after a few months despite receiving a millionaire salary. Meta increased its forecast of infrastructure and data spending to $72 billion by 2025. Meta Platforms accelerates its commitment to superintelligence Meta launched in mid 2025 the ambitious Meta Supe…
What’s really happening with the hires at Meta Superintelligence Labs
In June, Mark Zuckerberg went for the ultimate Hail Mary in the ever-intensifying AI race: He spun up a brand-new Meta AI lab after making a $14.3 billion acquisition of Scale AI — and then spending billions more hiring some of the industry’s preeminent researchers and engineers. Fast-forward a couple of months, and Zuckerberg may have recruited the talent, but now the question is whether he’ll be able to keep it from slipping through his finge…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is catching up with AI with billions in investments. His aggressive approach could fundamentally change the balance of power among the tech giants.
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