Meta is going all-in on artificial general intelligence (AGI). In a new post on Threads, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans to pour “hundreds of billions of dollars into compute to build superintelligence,” as it aggressively ramps up its AI ambitions.
Zuckerberg said Meta’s efforts will be backed by “the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry,” which will have all the capital and infrastructure it needs. “We have the capital from our business to do this,” he said.
Meta has already proved it’s willing to spend big. Just last week, the company reportedly offered more than $200 million to poach Apple’s top AI engineer, Ruoming Pang, in a blow to Apple’s own AI efforts. Back in May, Zuckerberg confirmed Meta would invest $65 billion in AI in 2025 alone, and the company recently acquired a $3.5 billion stake in Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica to further its plans for AI-powered smart glasses.
Now, Meta is turning its attention to compute infrastructure. Zuckerberg noted that Meta is on track to become the first AI lab to bring a supercluster exceeding 1 Gigawatt (GW) online. “We’re actually building several multi-GW clusters. We’re calling the first one Prometheus and it’s coming online in ’26. We’re also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW over several years,” he said.
Meta is also planning to build more “titan clusters,” just one of which, Zuckerberg said, is large enough to cover a significant portion of the footprint of Manhattan. He added that Meta Superintelligence Labs will boast “industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher.”
“I’m looking forward to working with the top researchers to advance the frontier,” Zuckerberg concluded.
With an unmatched war chest, a team of researchers and engineers cherry-picked by Zuckerberg, and no shortage of ambition, Meta is betting big that it can lead the race to superintelligence — before rivals like OpenAI, Google, Apple, or xAI get there first.
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