Meta Plans To Invest R1.1 Trn Or More In Ai This Year

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said the tech giant plans to invest at least 60 billion R1.1 trillion in artificial intelligence in 2025, aiming to lead in the technology.

'This will be a defining year for AI,' Zuckerberg said in a post on his Facebook page.

Zuckerberg expects Meta AI to be the top digital assistant, used by more than a billion people, and for the tech firm's Llama 4 to be at the forefront of AI models, according to the post.

Meta is creating an AI 'engineer' to contribute computer coding to its research and development efforts, he explained.