Meta unveils $65 billion AI investment plan for 2025

• Meta plans to invest up to $65 billion in 2025 to strengthen its AI infrastructure and drive innovation
• By 2025, it aims to have its AI assistant serve over 1 billion users and launch Llama 4 as the leading state-of-the-art model
• Microsoft and Google are also making substantial AI investments, with Microsoft committing $80 billion to AI and cloud infrastructure

Global tech giant Meta has announced an ambitious plan to invest up to $65 billion to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and accelerate groundbreaking innovation in the field.

The investment underscores Meta's commitment to maintaining its leadership in AI advancements. It will enhance the company’s core offerings and expand its infrastructure to support cutting-edge developments.

In a Facebook post on Friday, January 24, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the company’s vision for the coming years, emphasising the scale and significance of the initiative.

“We’re planning to invest $60-65 billion in capital expenditures this year while also significantly growing our AI teams,” the world’s second-richest man wrote.

He added, “We have the capital to continue investing in the years ahead. This is a massive effort, and over the coming years, it will drive our core products and business, unlock historic innovation, and extend American technology leadership.”

A centrepiece of this effort is the construction of a data centre with more than 2 gigawatts of power capacity. 

This state-of-the-art facility will be so vast it could cover a substantial portion of Manhattan, highlighting the immense scale of Meta’s infrastructure ambitions.

Meta is also developing an AI system capable of autonomously contributing to its research and development by generating code. 

The system will be pivotal in creating other AI technologies and software.

“This will be a defining year for AI. In 2025, I expect 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 efforts,” Zuckerberg said.

The CEO further disclosed that Meta plans to bring approximately 1 gigawatt of computing power online in 2025 and end the year with over 1.3 million GPUs powering its AI systems.

Meta’s announcement aligns with a broader surge in AI investments across the tech industry. The growing success of platforms like ChatGPT has inspired companies to prioritise AI development.

Microsoft recently revealed plans to invest $80 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in fiscal 2025, focusing on improving data centres for training AI models and deploying applications. More than half of this funding will be allocated to projects in the U.S.

Similarly, Google is concentrating resources on AI innovations, with its Cloud division experiencing rapid growth driven by the increasing adoption of AI technologies.

Trump announces $500 billion private-sector investment in AI infrastructure

Meanwhile, TheRadar earlier reported that on Tuesday, January 21, the United States President, Donald Trump, announced a groundbreaking private-sector investment of up to $500 billion to develop artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, aiming to solidify America’s leadership in this critical technology sector.

The ambitious "Stargate" initiative is a joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle.