Overview
- Meta’s Q2 revenue reached $47.5 billion, up 22% year-over-year, and profit climbed 36% to $18.3 billion, both surpassing analysts’ forecasts and sending shares higher after hours.
- Daily active users rose 6.4% year-over-year to 3.48 billion, reinforcing the strength of Meta’s core advertising business.
- The company invested $17 billion in AI infrastructure during the quarter and projects full-year capital expenditures of $72 billion as it builds multi-gigawatt Prometheus and Hyperion compute clusters.
- Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto outlined a “personal superintelligence” aimed at empowering individuals and signaled a move toward keeping future AI models more closed to manage risks and protect its business model.
- Reality Labs posted a $4.53 billion loss in Q2, while Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang has been created to recruit elite AI talent and accelerate next-generation model development.