{"id":988789,"date":"2026-01-30T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988789"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:49:19","slug":"meta-plans-to-spend-135-billion-on-ai-in-2026-will-alexandr-wangs-division-challenge-google-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/meta-plans-to-spend-135-billion-on-ai-in-2026-will-alexandr-wangs-division-challenge-google-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta plans to spend $135 billion on AI in 2026: Will Alexandr Wang\u2019s division challenge Google, OpenAI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has said it could spend between $60 billion and $135 billion in 2026 to build more powerful AI systems. This massive amount of money will go toward buying computer chips (GPUs), building huge data centers, and creating stronger AI tools. During their latest earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CFO Susan Li explained that this big spending increase is needed to stay ahead in the fast-growing world of artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Meta already spent around $60\u201365 billion on similar things \u2013 one of the highest amounts among big tech companies. The 2026 plan could almost double (or even more than double) that amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has said it could spend between $60 billion and $135 billion in 2026 to build more powerful AI systems. This massive amount of money will go toward buying computer chips (GPUs), building huge data centers, and creating stronger AI tools. During their latest earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CFO Susan Li explained that this big spending increase is needed to stay ahead in the fast-growing world of artificial intelligence. In 2025, Meta already spent around $60\u201365 billion on similar things \u2013 one of the highest amounts among big tech companies. The 2026 plan could almost double (or even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}