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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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Meta’s AI Clusterf*ck Is Humiliating Zuckerberg

Meta is posting record ad revenue while its AI pivot triggers mass layoffs, a leaderboard culture, and an internal morale collapse.

Crashtech Editorial July 3, 2026 AI Business & Money

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