Facebook owner investing up to $65 billion toward AI in 2025

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms is planning to spend as much as $65 billion this year alone to build on the social media company’s artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday.

In a post on Facebook, Zuckerberg declared 2025 “will be a defining year for AI,” saying he expects the company’s “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 effor