Midlevel staff are often the first targets of corporate downsizing efforts, but Meta’s plan to replace an entire tier of people with AI is a new wrinkle on an old story.

Mark Zuckerberg has announced a new spending plan for Meta that includes building an “AI engineer” to help with coding.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company will spend up to $65 billion as it looks to "significantly" grow its artificial intelligence team

Speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience, as quoted by Business Insider, Zuckerberg said, "Probably in 2025, we at Meta, as well as the other companies that are basically working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer that you have at your company that can write code."

Meta Platforms Inc. plans to invest as much as $65 billion on projects related to artificial intelligence in 2025, including building a giant new data center and increasing hiring in AI teams, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said Friday.

Meta Platforms plans to spend as much as $65 billion this year to expand its AI infrastructure, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday, aiming to bolster the company's position against rivals OpenAI and Google in the race to dominate the technology.

Meta stock after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg pledged $60 billion and $65 billion in capex this year.