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🔥Zuckerberg Is Spending Crazy Money to Rule the AI World. Is it genius... or is it madness?

💼 Zuckerberg Is Buying the Future—One Genius at a Time

Mark Zuckerberg isn’t just betting on AI—he’s spending like no one else to control it.

In a bold and aggressive move, Meta is reportedly paying up to $100 million per person to recruit top AI researchers, with an estimated $1.3 billion spent in 2024 alone on just its top 55 AI engineers.

One of the biggest deals included a $650 million acquisition of Scale AI’s founder Alexandr Wang and his core team, aimed at bringing their infrastructure expertise directly into Meta’s AGI push.

Another reported case involved Meta offering $150 million in total compensation to lure top talent from Anthropic and Google DeepMind, including prominent AI alignment researchers.

đź§  The Goal? Total AI Domination

Meta wants to be the first to build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—a system that can think and solve problems like a human, but faster, smarter, and without rest.
And Zuckerberg believes that to get there, you need the best brains and the biggest machines.

He’s not wrong.

  • âś… Poaching top minds from OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic

  • âś… Building super-data centers so large they “cover parts of Manhattan”

  • âś… Committing $60–65 billion in AI infrastructure and hardware spending for 2025

đź’ˇ Why It Matters

This is about more than bragging rights.

Whoever builds AGI will control the future of:

  • 🌍 Climate modeling

  • 🧬 Drug discovery

  • 🏦 Financial systems

  • đź§  Decision-making across industries

Zuckerberg is putting Meta at the center of that revolution, outspending and out-hiring the competition at every turn.

📣 The Takeaway

Zuckerberg’s message is loud and clear:

“We’re not waiting for the future. We’re building it—and we’re hiring the smartest people on Earth to do it.”

With over $61 billion budgeted for AI development and more than $1.3 billion already spent on top-tier minds, Meta is shaping the future of superintelligence—one billion-dollar chess move at a time.