Insider Brief
- Meta Platforms plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in developing artificial superintelligence, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Monday.
- The company will build multiple AI supercomputing clusters exceeding 1 gigawatt (GW) of power each, starting with Prometheus in 2026, followed by Hyperion and additional titan clusters, representing one of the largest computing infrastructure investments to date.
- Zuckerberg said Meta Superintelligence Labs aims to deliver industry-leading compute per researcher, positioning the company ahead of rivals as it recruits top AI talent and scales unprecedented infrastructure; energy sourcing and sustainability strategies remain undisclosed.
Meta Platforms plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars to develop artificial superintelligence, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Monday.
“For our superintelligence effort, I’m focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry,” Zuckerberg posted on Threads. “We’re also going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into compute to build superintelligence. We have the capital from our business to do this.”
He noted a new report by SemiAnalysis “that Meta is on track to be the first lab to bring a 1GW+ supercluster online.”
“The real wake-up call came when Meta lost its lead in open-weight models to DeepSeek”.” researchers noted. “That stirred the sleeping giant. Now in full Founder Mode, Mark Zuckerberg is personally leading Meta’s charge, identifying Meta’s two core shortcomings: Talent and Compute.”
Zuckerberg indicated Meta plans to build multiple AI supercomputing clusters capable of generating more than 1 gigawatt (GW) of power each, marking one of the largest computing infrastructure investments in history.
“Meta is on track to be the first lab to bring a 1GW+ supercluster online,” he wrote. “We’re actually building several multi-GW clusters.”
The first of these facilities, called Prometheus, is scheduled to come online in 2026. Additional clusters, including Hyperion, which is designed to scale up to 5GW over several years, are in development. Meta is reportedly planning several more large-scale systems, referred to as titan clusters. The scale of these data centers is unprecedented: according to Zuckerberg.
“Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher.”
.This move follows similar initiatives from other technology leaders, but Meta’s projected scale significantly exceeds current industry norms.
“Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher,” Zuckerberg noted. “I’m looking forward to working with the top researchers to advance the frontier!”
While Meta has pledged to use renewable energy where possible, details on sourcing and energy management for these initiatives have yet to be disclosed.
