Mark Zuckerberg is burning billions to chase the holy grail of AI

The Meta AI logo appears on a smartphone screen and as the background on a laptop screen in this photo illustration in Athens, Greece, on July 24, 2025. Meta states it can spend as much as $72 billion on capital expenditures this year, with a focus on AI and the data centers used to train and run the models. | Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Companies in the AI race are barreling toward a new goalpost: so-called superintelligence, or an AI model that can surpass human intelligence. The terminology here can get a bit dizzying. Top AI companies had already been trying to buil