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Molly A. Wallace

Zuckerberg spent years building on Apple’s terms. His $100 billion-plus AI bet is about owning everything

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Mark Zuckerberg says he knew he was taking an enormous risk when he greenlit Meta’s AI buildout—a commitment he pegged at as much as $200 billion—before there was any proof it would work.

“We’re going to write this check for, like, I don’t know, like $100 billion, $200 billion,” Zuckerberg said on a recent episode of Cheeky Pint, the podcast hosted by Stripe cofounder John Collison. “I’m like, ‘Alex, are you sure this is going to work?’”

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