“We are going to invest aggressively. Even if we lost a couple of hundreds of billions of dollars it would be an annoyancebut it is better than being left behind in the race for superintelligence. “Those words recently pronounced Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO.
The founder of Facebook does not tend to shake his hand when making risky technological bets. He already knows what it is to lose them: Metaverso is being a failure for the moment, but even if he does not seem to want to leave that bet. The company continues to invest in it even though it is estimated that it has already lost 45,000 million dollars in that project.
But for him the commitment to AI, although it seems exorbitant, is almost mandatory strategically. In the interview at the Podcast Access the Meta CEO explained how In fact the Risk for a company as a goal would not be aggressive enough.
In Trump’s recent dinner with the great leaders of the technological segment in the US, Zuckerberg promised to invest at least 600,000 million dollars in the United States until 2028.
Analysts believe that the numbers do not fit: it is estimated that Meta will invest about 80,000 million dollars in the US in the second half of 2025 (including all their expenses). That would make it necessary that from 2026 to 2028 he spent 520,000 million, but experts do not see it feasible and some believe that these comments They are more business marketing than anything else.
But what is true is that both goal and other large technology companies are investing extraordinary amounts of money in this field. We already saw that Capex’s forecasts of some of them are huge in 2025 due to that commitment to AI data centers:
- Amazon: 100,000 million dollars
- Microsoft: 80,000 million dollars
- Google: 75,000 million dollars
- Goal: 65,000 million dollars
- Apple: 12,000 million dollars
Thus, Mark Zuckerberg is not too frightened to lose 200,000 million dollars in AI, but he also knows what is something like that. In April 2024, their financial results were so disastrous that their shares suddenly fell 19%, which was precisely equivalent to a drop in the stock market of 200,000 million dollars.
Of course, Meta recovered. In that downturn the goal shares were just 500 dollars. Today and a half later, they are at maximum, $ 778. The company has stumbled in the past, but has risen again and again Zuckerberg also commented on that podcast how it did not rule out that there was an AI bubble:
“I think there is definitely the possibility, at least empirically, based on large infrastructure constructions of the past and how they led to bubbles.”
And even so, Zuckerberg is clear that this is a critical moment for this technology and it is better to bet on the big not to do it and lose. For him going too slow can make you lose a privilege position, and that would be fatal because according to him “it will be the most important technology that will allow the greatest number of new products, innovation and creation of value in history.”
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