On October 14, according to Bloomberg's morning report today (14th)Meta CEO MARK ZuckerbergIT WAS REVEALED THAT LAST YEAR THE COMPANY HAD TO COMMIT HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED TO RUN THE AI PRODUCTS WITHOUT KNOWING WHETHER THEY WOULD SUCCEED。
Zuckerberg, in his latest podcast Cheeky Pint, recalled that he had said to Meta's Chief AI Officer (Alexandr Wang): “We have to pay a sum, and I am not sure if it is $100 billion (the current exchange rate is approximately $6,705.82 billion) or $200 billion (the current exchange rate is about 1.34 trillion yuan). Are you sure this will work?"
Meta has been difficult to convince investors to accept the sharp increase in expenditures from AI, and this statement by Zuckerberg reveals the uncertainty that the company was facing at the time. Although he has repeatedly stressed that huge investments will eventually be rewarded, shareholders are increasingly concerned about the revenues and profits of MetaWill it grow fast enough.
In more than two hours of interviews, Zuckerberg and Wang Tao revealed that Meta CFO Susan Lee had repeatedly reminded them that if the investment failedThe price will be extremely highI don't know. Zuckerberg said to Wang Tao, "I think Susan is a little scary for you."
Wing-ho recalled: "Every time we talk about this, we joke about it, "Well, I hope everything works out, and there's a good result. * I don't know
In the face of such a huge investment, he can at best talk about the team's progress in research and development, without any guarantee that the project will succeedThere was no chance of success.
Zuckerberg says he doesn't know what consumers would think of Muse: “We thought it was more likely that, “Well, the product would probably have to be improved after it was launched.”
To counterbalance U.S. S. S & T enterprises like Alphabet, OpenAI and Anthropic in advanced AI model and product development competitions, Meta Hundreds of billions of dollarsI don't know. Meta is also at the top of the technology industry in the construction of AI data centres。
Investors will learn again about Meta's financial situation next week. The company is scheduled to announce its performance after the stock market closes down on 21 October. In the last quarter, as spending on data centres and smart glasses operations continued to rise, Meta ' s free cash flow fell to its lowest level in many years, resulting in a fall in stock prices of 8%。
As of Monday, local time, the Meta stock price has increased cumulatively over 12% since this year。