Stefan Slowinski, BNP Paribas Exane global head of software research, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss opportunities in software stocks and his expectations for mega-cap tech earnings.
On Thursday, Meta's artificial intelligence bots across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were still telling inquisitive users that the US president is Joe Biden – despite Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, according to a report.
Meta Platforms (META) said it will invest between $60 billion and $65 billion into A.I. in 2025. That money will go to a 2+ gigawatt data center that CEO Mark Zuckerberg says, "would cover a significant part of Manhattan.
Meta will begin testing ads on its Threads microblogging service with a few companies in the U.S. and Japan, the company said in a blog post Friday. The experiment marks Meta's first run at generating revenue from Threads, which launched in 2023 to rival X, the company formerly known as Twitter that Elon Musk purchased in 2022.
Meta Platforms will begin test launching ads on its social media platform Threads with a few brands in the U.S. and Japan, it said on Friday, as the app hits over 300 million monthly active users.
Zuckerberg expects Meta's AI assistant — available across its services, including Facebook and Instagram — to serve more than 1 billion people in 2025.
Social media giant Meta made hundreds of thousands of dollars last year from content posted by a well-known pro-Russian disinformation network, researchers have claimed.
Meta will rapidly ramp up its spending in 2025 as part of its artificial intelligence push, according to its centibillionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday, as the battle between Meta and its generative AI competitors including OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI comes to the forefront this week with President Donald Trump's announcement of the $500 billion “Stargate” joint venture with OpenAI.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday announced the company plans to invest around $60 to $65 billion in capital expenditure this year as it builds out its AI infrastructure. Meta is building a large datacenter that "would cover a significant part of Manhattan" to power its AI offerings and will end the year with 1.3 million GPUs, Zuckerberg said.
“This will be a defining year for AI,” the CEO wrote in a Facebook post.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company plans to significantly up its capital expenditures this year as it aims to keep pace with rivals in the cutthroat AI space.
The social-media giant plans to spend between $60 billion and $65 billion, the latest sign of tech companies' accelerating investments into AI.