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Meta's AI Talent War Raises Questions About Strategy

  • On June 30, Meta sought $29 billion from private investors to fund a major AI data center project and strengthen its generative AI talent efforts.
  • Meta's 2025 capex forecast rose to $72 billion due to data center and infrastructure costs, driven by the need to compete in the AI race, prompting a major fund-raising effort.
  • Meta structured $3 billion in equity, $26 billion in debt, invested $15 billion in Scale AI, and offers pay packages up to $300 million over four years.
  • Meta's aggressive hiring and funding have raised investor concerns about cash flow, while OpenAI employees accepting offers prompt retention challenges at ChatGPT, affecting industry competition.
  • Meta’s investment in data centers and AI talent signals a long-term strategic effort to win the AI race against China, though immediate profitability remains uncertain, Zino noted.
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They are some of the richest men in the world, but above all they are the most powerful and controversial. Their companies and products, from Meta to Amazon, passing through TikTok or Nvidia, mark the pace of a society driven by technological advances and hooked to screens. Mark Zuckerberg(White Plains, New York, United States, 41 years) Executive Director of Meta Platforms Funded Facebook in 2004 in a Harvard dormitory and since then dominates …

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RECIT - Mark Zuckerberg launched an unprecedented, muscular and very expensive mercato by hiring high-level researchers from his rival OpenAI, but also from Google or from Anthropic.

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TechCrunch broke the news in United States on Saturday, June 28, 2025.
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