Meta ihas announced to launch Prometheus, its first AI supercluster, by 2026 in a high-stake push into generative AI. Fueled by billions of dollars of investment, tent-based data centers and aggressive hiring of top researchers,

Meta (META) stock has jumped 36% over the past three months, with Wall Street watching closely to see if upcoming earnings justify the company's valuation. Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley joins Opening Bid to discuss Meta's multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence (AI) spend and whether investors might be caught off guard by just how big that number gets.

Meta accelerates its AI ambitions with Prometheus supercluster, tent-based data centers, and billion-dollar investments to outpace tech rivals.

Prometheus will come online in 2026 acting as Meta's first-ever 1GW lab, with Hyperion launching in the years after, scaling AI compute power to 5GW, and these are Meta's mainstream AI projects. Meta will add multiple new AI clusters over the years, showing that the company is pushing heavily into AI, and plans to overtake the industry.

Owning this much AI horsepower gives Meta an edge in training advanced models and pushing toward artificial general intelligence. By recruiting experts from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), O