Jaden Schaefer

And I think right now the message from the leadership over at Meta is pretty clear.

You know, AI is now their top priority.

Zuckerberg has been, you know, kind of framing 2026 as a year that Meta pushes towards what he's calling

personalized superintelligence.

Last year, they spent $14.3 billion investing in scale AI.

Then they hired their CEO, Alexander Wang, with a bunch of their other top researchers.

So I think we're starting to see this kind of strategy, this clarity in their strategy right now, right?

They're spending these huge amounts of money on AI infrastructure and talent, right?

Because there's like, you know,

reports that some of these deals were worth a billion dollars when just like hiring talent, like the top researcher would cost a billion dollars.

And that's because they're, you know, give them a couple hundred million dollars and then they tons of stock and equity and stuff.

They got to stick around for like five or six years.

So anyway, or maybe it was like an eight year deal, a billion dollars for eight years for some of these top AI researchers.

So anyways, I mean, and that's all speculative and that depends on the stock price and a bunch of other things.

But like Meta is spending a ton of money.

And I think that that is very clear.

But of course, they have to offset those costs because that money isn't coming out of thin air.

And so what I will also say is Meta's not the only one that's doing these layoffs.

Block also recently announced layoffs.

There was about 4,000 employees.