# Meta Spent $14.3B and Came in Fourth | Goldman: 16K Jobs Gone Monthly | SaaSocalypse | CWH-101

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Published: 2026-04-12T01:00:00+00:00
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Meta just spent fourteen point three billion dollars rebuilding their entire AI stack from scratch. Alexander Wang from Scale AI led the rebuild. Nine months. Thousands of engineers. They came out in fourth place. Behind Google, behind OpenAI, behind Anthropic. Four companies spending more money than most nations generate in a year trying to beat each other in a game that reinvents itself every six months. Zuckerberg is burning $135 billion annually on AI. Meanwhile we are sitting here buildi...

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