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Mark Zuckerberg says he'd rather risk 'misspending a couple of hundred billion' than be late to superintelligence


Zuckerberg says an AI bubble is "quite possible," but warns the bigger risk is building too slowly and missing superintelligence.

Zuckerberg said that if a company builds too slowly and artificial superintelligence arrives sooner than expected, it'll be "out of position on what I think is going to be the most important technology that enables the most new products and innovation and value creation and history." Last month, the company pumped the recruitment brakes after shelling out huge signing bonuses to lock down hires in the cutthroat AI race. The hiring freeze came as Wall Street scrutinized Meta's labor costs and warned that stock-based compensation could dilute shareholder value without clear innovation gains.

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