Zuckerberg spent years building on Apple’s terms. His $100 billion-plus AI bet is about owning everything

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    "title": "Zuckerberg spent years building on Apple’s terms. His $100 billion-plus AI bet is about owning everything",
    "author": "Molly A. Wallace",
    "excerpt": "Mark Zuckerberg says he knew he was taking an enormous risk when he greenlit Meta’s AI buildout - a commitment he pegged at as much as $200 billion - before there was any proof it would work. “We’re going to write this check for, like, I don’t know, like $100 billion, $200 billion,” Zuckerberg said on a recent episode of Cheeky Pint , the podcast hosted by Stripe cofounder John Collison. “I’m like, ‘Alex, are you sure this is going to work?’” Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, appeared alongside Zuckerberg and said decisions of that size get made “long before there’s proof points around whether or not even the thing is working.” He added: “It’s like the opposite of Lean Startup.” The episode was released Oct. 12, the same day Meta launched Muse Wonder , the first frontier-class model from the superintelligence lab Wang leads . Meta has guided for as much as $145 billion in capital expenditures this year , much of it on AI infrastructure. Much of that money is going toward what Zuckerberg describes as a “full-stack” operation. “Meta is a full-stack tech company,” he said. “We build our own data centers, we build our own chips, we build our own low-level infrastructure.” Zuckerberg’s push to own the full stack may stem from his nearly two-decade rivalry with Apple and Google, which control the world’s dominant smartphone platforms. Facebook’s iPhone app launched in July...",
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