Zuckerberg expects Meta’s AI assistant — available across its services, including Facebook and Instagram — to serve more than 1 billion people in 2025.

Mark Zuckerberg said that 2025 will be a “pivotal year for the metaverse” as Meta's Reality Labs' losses reach $60 billion since 2020.

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.

Meta Platforms (META) is planning to spend $60B to $65B to build out the company's artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Meta's Reality Labs division continues to bleed billions of dollars — crossing $60 billion in losses since 2020. "This is also going to be a pivotal year for the metaverse," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg confidently told investors on Wednesday.

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

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company plans to invest around $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures this year

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlines new AI capital expenditure for 2025: $65 billion ready for 1.3 million AI GPU datacenter this year.

DeepSeek will not derail Microsoft and Meta spending a combined $US145bn ($232.3bn) on artificial intelligence this year, with Mark Zuckerberg steaming ahead with plans to build a data centre almost the size of Manhattan.

Zuckerberg anticipates that Meta's AI assistant will serve more than 1 billion people in 2025, up from approximately 600 million monthly active users in 2024. Meta Platforms has announced plans to invest up to $65bn this year to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.

This is going to be a big year,” said Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his newfound chumminess with the White House and host of technical AI advances.