American tech entrepreneur, Meta’s Chief AI Officer since 2025
Meta is pursuing a cloud compute business, potentially selling access to excess AI compute power and/or hosted AI models. The move follows high AI infrastructure spending and could reshape the company’s revenue flow beyond advertising. Investors have reacted positively, while rivals and early pilots offer a benchmark for profitability.
Thinking Machines has released Inkling, a foundation model designed for customization by enterprises. It draws on large-scale pretraining but is optimized to run with lower compute, offering a tunable balance of cost and performance and open-weight accessibility for fine-tuning on private data.
Meta has expanded its Hyperion AI data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana to at least 5 gigawatts of compute capacity at a cost surpassing $50 billion. The project, already a major AI infrastructure push, is expected to create over 1,000 jobs and bring billions in local contracts and infrastructure investments.