How much is Meta spending on frontier AI models?
According to reporting on internal figures, Meta is on pace to spend over $125 billion pursuing general frontier models to compete with OpenAI, even as senior engineers reportedly burned roughly $900 million in compute chasing internal leaderboard rankings rather than clear product outcomes.
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