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Meta Platforms (META, Financials) unveiled plans to expand its artificial intelligence operations in 2025, with an emphasis on advanced models, cutting-edge infrastructure, and increased capital expenditure.
Targeting a transforming year for its AI projects, the corporation is in line with its more general strategy emphasis on innovation.
Supported by developments in its Llama 4 model, which Meta hopes to become industry standard, the firm expects its AI assistant to reach over 1 billion users by the end of 2025. Meta also intends to bring in an AI engineer to greatly improve its capacity for research and development.
Meta is building a 2-gigawatt data center to drive these projects. Leveraging around 1.3 million GPUs by year-end, the business intends to activate over 1GW of computational capacity in 2025. Meta underlined that the size of this data center would be sufficient to fill a good amount of Manhattan.
Emphasizing its long-term commitment to artificial intelligence research, the corporation has revealed a capital expenditure goal of $60 billion to $65 billion for 2025. Meta intends to greatly increase the size of its AI teams and make use of its financial resources in order to maintain these initiatives in the next years.
Meta believes that these expenditures will be absolutely important in developing its main items and releasing fresh ideas. The corporation sees this as a means to strengthen technical leadership and propel historic developments in American technology.
This article first appeared on GuruFocus.