{"id":304729,"date":"2025-07-30T19:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304729\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T19:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:54:11","slug":"zuckerberg-claims-superintelligence-is-now-in-sight-as-meta-lavishes-billions-on-ai-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304729\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg claims \u2018superintelligence is now in sight\u2019 as Meta lavishes billions on AI | Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether it\u2019s poaching top talent away from competitors, acquiring AI startups or proclaiming that it will build data centers the size of Manhattan, Meta<\/a> has been on a spending spree to boost its artificial intelligence capabilities for the better part of a month.<\/p>\n

In a new memo<\/a> posted on Wednesday ahead of the company\u2019s quarterly earnings report, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg describes his ambitions for developing what he calls \u201csuperintelligence\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves,\u201d Zuckerberg wrote. \u201cThe improvement is slow for now, but undeniable. Developing superintelligence is now in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though he did not provide any details of what would qualify as \u201csuperintelligence\u201d versus standard artificial intelligence, he did say that it would pose \u201cnovel safety concerns\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg wrote that the company differs from other AI firms in that Meta aims to bring \u201cpersonal superintelligence to everyone\u201d. Other companies are focused on primarily using \u201csuperintelligence\u201d for productivity and to automate \u201call valuable work\u201d, he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rest of this decade seems likely to be the decisive period for determining the path this technology will take, and whether superintelligence will be a tool for personal empowerment or a force focused on replacing large swaths of society,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Investors want to know: Does AI mean cashflow?<\/p>\n

Investors are looking for signs that the parent company of WhatsApp, Instagram<\/a> and Facebook is spending its billions efficiently. The social media company reports its second quarter earnings Wednesday after the close of the New York stock exchange, and analysts expect a lot of attention on whether the revenue the company is bringing in will help offset the hundreds of billions the firm is spending on recruiting and infrastructure, collectively known as capital expenditure.<\/p>\n

Wall Street expects Meta to report $5.92 in earnings per share on $44.8bn in revenue. Meta has exceeded Wall Street\u2019s financial expectations for multiple quarters in a row despite enormous spending on AI. Wednesday\u2019s results will be important to watch because \u201cthe cashflow from that revenue is a huge source of capital for all the investments the company is making\u201d, according to David Meier, senior analyst at the Motley Fool.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeta can\u2019t invest enough capital into its artificial intelligence infrastructure,\u201d Meier wrote.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg provided few tangible updates in the memo, but one thing is clear: Getting to this so-called higher level of intelligence will require a great deal of capital. The firm previously projected its total expenses for 2025 would come in between $113bn and $118bn. Of that, Meta said it expected its capital expenditures to amount to somewhere in the range of $64bn and $72bn \u2013 up from a previous prediction of $60bn to $65bn.<\/p>\n

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The company has been building out its new superintelligence labs team with talent from competing AI firms. Meta first invested $14.3bn into Scale AI in exchange for a 49% stake in the company, and brought the startup\u2019s CEO Alexandr Wang on as chief AI officer. Since then, several reports indicate Meta is attracting engineers and other employees away from firms like Apple, Github and several startups with massive compensation packages \u2013 including at least one that came in over $200m , according to Bloomberg.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cTo win the superintelligence race requires the best of the best talent and Meta has been on a roll when it comes to recruiting top AI talent,\u201d said Forrester research director Mike Proulx<\/a>. \u201cMoney talks and Meta has plenty of it \u2013 reaching into the company\u2019s deep pockets to lure luminaries from its competition with lavish compensation packages, while spending hundreds of billions on data centers to power and scale its AI initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Analysts will be scrutinizing how the company\u2019s primary revenue source \u2013 advertising \u2013 is faring. In addition to looking at overall revenue brought in from advertising \u2013 which was $38.3bn for the same quarter in 2024 \u2013 analysts will probably be interested in updates on newer advertising efforts such as on WhatsApp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor more than a decade, Meta resisted trying to monetize the user base on the communications app,\u201d Motley Fool\u2019s Meier wrote. \u201cBut that changed in June when the company announced it would be selling ads, and we are curious to hear about the progress Meta is making.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether it\u2019s poaching top talent away from competitors, acquiring AI startups or proclaiming that it will build data…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-304729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114943941961618451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}