On an earnings call, Zuck acknowledged that Meta’s massive AI spend might not go as intended in the near future.
You know how Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is spending $72 billion on AI infrastructure in 2025? Well, with his company’s stock in the middle of a vertigo-inducing plunge of about 8% on Wednesday afternoon—a signal that investors are getting worried—CEO Mark Zuckerberg conjured a vision of a world where Meta doesn’t end up using all that stuff for its intended purpose in the near future, saying it would be fine.
That infrastructure Meta is investing in is intended to come in handy if AI superintelligence is achieved soon, Zuckerberg said on an earnings call Wednesday. “If it takes longer, then we’ll use the extra compute to accelerate our core business, which continues to be able to profitably use much of the compute,” Zuckerberg said, according to The Wall Street Journal.
