Meta is investing at least $135 billion in AI

Quarterly figures Meta invests billions in AI As of: October 22, 2026 • 7:25 a.m

The Meta Group wants to advance the expansion of its AI infrastructure. There will be a new share without voting rights to finance it. In this way, company boss Zuckerberg secures control.

With more than $64 billion in sales, Meta exceeded analysts' expectations in the last quarter. In the current year, the Facebook parent company plans to invest billions, mainly in AI development. The high investments - 135 to 145 billion dollars have been announced - will flow into the expansion of data centers.

However, another cost factor has reduced Meta's profits: a first part of the total of over 17 billion dollars that Meta has to pay to several US states because of a settlement - because the company neglected the protection of minors and the design of its apps was addictive, according to the accusation. However, Meta did not admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement.

Starting next year, Meta wants to issue a new share class without voting rights - this way it can raise capital for the enormous AI investments without diluting CEO Mark Zuckerberg's majority of votes.

The scandal surrounding the misuse of user data millions of times had already become known in March 2018. more

According to the company, Meta's personal AI agent "Muse", which was recently released only in North America, already has around ten million users. Agents like “Muse” can do shopping or organize appointments for their users. But it hasn't been profitable yet - Meta still makes money mainly from advertising on its apps such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

On the expenditure side, Meta could face billions more in the future: A court in the state of New Mexico sentenced Meta on Wednesday to pay fines of $25 billion because the company had violated data protection laws as part of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

This topic in the program: BR24 Radio | News | Oct 22, 2026 | 6:42 a.m