Meta made a prediction final 12 months its generative AI merchandise would rake in $2 billion to $3 billion in income in 2025, and between $460 billion and $1.4 trillion by 2035, in accordance with court docket paperwork unsealed Wednesday.
The paperwork, submitted by attorneys for ebook authors suing Meta for what they declare is unauthorized coaching of the corporate’s AI on their works, don’t point out what precisely Meta considers to be a “generative AI product.” But it’s public information that the tech large makes cash — and stands to make more cash — from generative AI in numerous flavors.
Meta has revenue-sharing agreements with sure corporations that host its open Llama assortment of fashions. The firm not too long ago launched an API for customizing and evaluating Llama fashions. And Meta AI, the corporate’s AI assistant, could ultimately present adverts and provide a subscription choice with further options, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated through the firm’s Q1 earnings name Wednesday.
The court docket paperwork additionally reveal Meta is spending an infinite quantity on its AI product teams.
In 2024, the corporate’s “GenAI” price range was over $900 million, and this 12 months, it may exceed $1 billion, in accordance with the paperwork. That’s not together with the infrastructure wanted to run and prepare AI fashions. Meta beforehand stated it plans to spend $60 billion to $80 billion on capital expenditures in 2025, totally on expansive new knowledge facilities.
Those budgets might need been larger had they included offers to license books from the authors suing Meta. For occasion, Meta mentioned in 2023 spending upwards of $200 million to amass coaching knowledge for Llama, round $100 million of which might have gone towards books alone, per the paperwork. But the corporate allegedly determined to pursue different choices: pirating ebooks on an enormous scale.
Meta didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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