Midlevel staff are often the first targets of corporate downsizing efforts, but Meta’s plan to replace an entire tier of people with AI is a new wrinkle on an old story.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to further the company’s AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a Louisiana data center that Zuckerberg says “is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan,” he wrote on Threads today.

Mark Zuckerberg’s confidence: The Meta chief executive officer predicted a “really big year” in which the social media company’s “highly intelligent and personalized AI assistant” will reach more than 1 billion people on its platforms.

Sam Altman hailed the Chinese firm's low-cost AI model as "impressive" and said OpenAI would accelerate the release of "better models" in response.

Mark Zuckerberg' Meta assembled several"war rooms" of engineers, as The Information reports, in an attempt to get ahead of DeepSeek.

Meta Platforms plans to spend as much as $65 billion this year to expand its AI infrastructure, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday, aiming to bolster the company's position against rivals OpenAI and Google in the race to dominate the technology.

Mark Zuckerberg said this year will be a "defining" year for AI, announcing plans to spend over $60-$65 billion in capital expenditures.

Forget mega yachts, AI data centers are quickly becoming the next battleground for billionaires as Zuckerberg pledges $65 billion CAPEX spend in 2025 When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social media company plans to spend as much as $65 billion this year alone to build on its artificial intelligence efforts.

January saw Meta, Amazon, Microsoft announce layoffs. With China growing influence in the AI space, and Donald Trump at the helm in the US, what lies ahead for the tech industry in 2025?

The race is on to build the fastest, most efficient AI models and hopefully tech companies will start developing the products we want to use.