Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg laid out AI vision that surpassed second quarter expectations and brought stocks to a surge
- Meta Platform CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent a lot of time Over the past few months, he has built his news super intelligence AI team.
Meta Platform CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to provide “something personal and close to everyone,” but his ambitious bet on AI has impacted the company’s cash flow, which could make the costs even more difficult as Meta continues to upgrade AI capabilities. Exposed employment.
Social Media Giant I spent time $17 billion in capital expenditure quarterprimarily AI infrastructure centres and data centres, and we hope to continue to spend large amounts of money until 2026. Still, Meta’s shares rose 11.5% in after-hours trading after providing second-quarter financial results for the blockbuster. Revenue rose 22% to $47.5 billion, with its core advertising business generating $46.6 billion in advertising revenue across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. Daily active users have grown to 3.5 billion, profit margins have improved, and net profit has increased 36% compared to last year to $18.3 billion.
“The intersection of technology and culture is where the meta focuses,” Zuckerberg said. Instagram Reel Defining the purpose of the meta aims to be super intelligence. The new lab will focus on developing next-generation metamodels, he said.
$Meta CFOs show a sharp rise in CAPEX in 2026
“We are currently looking forward to equally important CAPEX $ growth in 2026 as we continue to actively pursue opportunities to bring additional capacity online to meet AI initiatives and business operations needs.” https://t.co/bdmythqfba– Transcript (@thetranscript_) July 30, 2025
Zuckerberg said the company is building an “elite, talented team” led by one of the world’s youngest billionaires. Alexandre Wang.
“We spent a lot of time building this team this quarter,” says Zuckerberg. “The reason why so many people are excited to be involved is that Meta has all the necessary material to build a major model and reach billions.”
The new Superintelligence team has access to “unparalleled computing” as Meta builds a new Gigawatt+ cluster.
“We’re making all of these investments because we’re confident that super intelligence is trying to improve every aspect of our work,” Zuckerberg said.