Mark Zuckerberg has committed to vast AI spending to allow Meta to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic. Meta’s Muse Wonder models reached the AI frontier as of October 12, 2026, outperforming Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5/Fable 5.1 and OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra. The Muse agent app became the most downloaded application in US app stores. Meta’s capital expenditure for 2026 is estimated at between $130 billion and $145 billion, with over $100 billion earmarked for AI infrastructure. In 2025, Meta acquired a 49% stake in Scale AI for $14.3 billion and appointed Scale co-founder Alexandr Wang as chief AI officer.
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