(Editor's Note: This article should have published on June 20, 2025, but was delayed due to a technical issue)

By Adam Levine 

Meta Platforms

In technology, the only constant is change. Or, as former Intel CEO Andy Grove once wrote, "I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction."

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that Grove "played a big role in shaping my management style." Zuckerberg may be the most paranoid person in Silicon Valley.

Zuckerberg, 41, is dedicated to the proposition that Meta should never be disrupted by Grove's "strategic inflection points," which occur when a new technology shifts the playing field, exposing incumbents to fresh competition. So far, Zuckerberg has surfed every Big Tech wave hitting his shores, and the company's stock market performance confirms it.

The latest inflection point is artificial intelligence, which threatens to turn today's winners into tomorrow's losers. Under Zuckerberg, Meta is making a huge bet on AI. It has spent $96 billion in the past three years to build AI data centers, and plans to spend about $70 billion in 2025.

Meta opened its Llama AI models to almost everyone, gaining traction and crowdsourcing improvements quickly.

None of this guarantees that Meta won't be upended -- but it won't be for lack of Zuckerberg's investment in the future.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

June 23, 2025 21:34 ET (01:34 GMT)

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