Meta has unveiled Meta Compute, a top-tier initiative to build AI infrastructure at an unprecedented scale, with plans to add tens of gigawatts of capacity this decade and hundreds of gigawatts in the long term. Infrastructure Director Santosh Janardhan leads the project alongside Daniel Gross, who joined last year from AI security startup SSI. Meta has pledged 600 billion dollars in infrastructure investments in the U.S. by 2028 and recently secured 20-year nuclear power agreements for its data centers.
The new president and former Trump national security official, Dina Powell McCormick, is responsible for government contracts and financing capacity expansion. This move comes amid announced layoffs in Meta Reality Labs and metaverse/VR divisions, with an expected reduction of around 10 percent this week. The initiative demonstrates Meta’s serious investment in AI infrastructure to ensure capacity does not become a bottleneck in the race for cutting-edge AI technologies.
In Brief: Tech World Highlights
- Dell Chief Product Officer Kevin Terwilliger stated that consumers do not buy computers because of AI, and the company plans to move away from AI-first marketing.
- Amazon is facing criticism over its AI shopping agent Buy for Me, after merchants reported their products were taken and listed on the platform without permission.
- OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 Pro solved three Erdos problems using Harmonic’s Aristotle, while mathematician Terence Tao and others achieved new results on previously unsolved proofs.
- Epoch AI released new data showing that global AI compute capacity doubles every seven months, with Nvidia chips accounting for over 60 percent of production since 2022.
- Justin Lin, Director of Qwen at Alibaba, stated that Chinese AI companies have less than a 20 percent chance of surpassing frontier models in the next three to five years, citing resource differences compared to U.S. competitors.
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