00:00Mark Zuckerberg just announced, Meta will spend $60 to $65 billion on artificial intelligence in
00:062026. That's more than the military budget of most countries. More than NASA's entire annual
00:13budget. And here's the wildest part. Nobody noticed. While OpenAI makes headlines with
00:19ChatGPT, Meta is quietly building an AI empire and giving it away for free. Meta's strategy is
00:26completely different from OpenAI. They don't charge $20 a month. They don't sell a PI access to
00:31developers. They just release their AI models for free. Llama 3, their flagship model, is open source.
00:39Anyone can download it, anyone can modify it, anyone can build on it without paying Meta a single cent.
00:45It makes no business sense on the surface. But here's the actual business model. Meta doesn't
00:50sell AI. They sell your attention. Every AI feature they add to Instagram, Facebook or WhatsApp keeps
00:56you scrolling for 30 seconds longer. That means one more ad impression, one more click, one more purchase.
01:03The AI is a loss leader. They'll spend $60 billion building it if it makes you spend $61 billion worth
01:10of time on their apps. Zuckerberg isn't just buying GPUs. He's building a 2 gigawatt data center that
01:17would cover a significant portion of Manhattan. That's enough electricity to power 3 million homes.
01:23Okay, by the end of 2025, Meta will have over 1.3 million GPUs running their AI. The scale is
01:30absurd.
01:31And it's all designed to do one thing. Figure out what content keeps you addicted to your feed.
01:36While everyone obsesses over chat GPT, Meta's Llama models have quietly become the most widely used AI in
01:43the world. Startups build on them because they're free. Researchers prefer them because they're open.
01:49Governments use them because they can inspect the code. Meta lost the narrative war but they might be
01:54winning the infrastructure war. If AI becomes a utility, Meta owns the pipes. So next time you see an
02:01open AI announcement trending on Twitter remember this. Meta spent $60 billion this year to make Instagram
02:07Reels slightly more addictive. They don't need press coverage. They don't need your subscription money.
02:12They just need you to keep scrolling. And they're using artificial intelligence to make sure you never
02:18stop.
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