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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Blake Montgomery

Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more

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Mark Zuckerberg speaks in San Francisco, California, on 10 September 2024. Photograph: Laure Andrillon/Reuters

The US’s largest companies have spent 2025 locked in a competition to spend more money than one another, lavishing $155bn on the development of artificial intelligence, more than the US government has spent on education, training, employment and social services in the 2025 fiscal year so far.

Based on the most recent financial disclosures of Silicon Valley’s biggest players, the race is about to accelerate to hundreds of billions in a single year.

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