Meta CEO reveals company was prepared to make a $200B AI investment bet

According to Business Insider, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a podcast that the company had been prepared to make an AI investment of as much as $200 billion before its new models had proven themselves. The episode, released on Monday, was the Cheeky Pint podcast, hosted by John Collison. Zuckerberg appeared alongside Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, and the two recounted conversations from late last year about the enormous spending. Zuckerberg said the team was quite excited about the progress at the time, even though the models had not yet been seen, and that the company was ready to write a check for roughly $100 billion to $200 billion. The report says Meta's finance chief was concerned about such a risky bet and pulled Alexandr Wang aside, wanting the person building the technology to understand what failure would mean. The account stops at this disclosure; the materials do not say whether the investment was actually carried out, and no further developments are given.