Meta boasted of 49 % of profit, successful in AI and the growth of the audience – the shares jumped up

Meta✴ published a positive financial report according to the results of the past quarter, which pushed the growth of her shares. The head of the company Mark Zuckerberg responded to the success of the Chinese startup Deepseek and expressed the hope that with the new head of the White House 2025 it would be even more successful.

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META✴ profit for the share amounted to $ 8.02 against $ 6.77 by analysts, and the revenue per quarter amounted to $ 48.39 billion against the expected $ 47.04 billion – an increase of 21 % in annual calculus. Net profit increased by 49 % and amounted to $ 20.8 billion – a year earlier it was $ 14 billion. In the current quarter, META✴ expects revenue in the range from $ 39.5 to $ 41.8 billion – the average value yielded to the forecasts of analysts indicating $ 41.73 billion.

In 2025, the company awaits the revision of relations with the authorities, which will have a beneficial effect on its activities, said Meta✴ CEO. “Now we have the US administration, which is proud of our leading companies, gives priority to the victory of American technologies and will protect our values ​​and interests abroad. I am optimistic at the progress and innovations that this can open, ”said Mark Zuckerberg.

The number of active users of the META✴ AI chatbot per month exceeded the mark of 700 million-only in December there were 600 million; This year, Mr. Tsuckerberg believes, this indicator will exceed 1 billion. The appearance of an advanced large language model DeepSeek with open source is confirmed by META, the same approach – unlike Openai and Google, the company continues to release its LLAMA models open, the head of the company recalled.

Meta✴ has already completed the training of the Llama 4 mini-version and has achieved “great progress” in teaching a large version of the model. The company also confirmed the previously made statement that its capital costs for the direction of artificial intelligence in 2025 will amount to $ 60 billion to $ 65 billion – large investments of META✴ in the AI ​​infrastructure will be a strategic advantage.

The number of daily active users on the META✴ platforms according to the results of the IV quarter reached 3.35 billion – there were 3.29 billion quarterly; Wall Street analysts on the IV quarter predicted 3.32 billion. Expenses and costs in the past quarter showed an increase of 5 % year to $ 25.02 billion. Traditionally, the Upriting Unit Reality Labs, which develops virtual and augmented reality technologies, in the last quarter showed an operational loss of $ 5 billion with a revenue of $ 1.1 billion. The total expenses of META✴ in 2025 are expected to be amounted to $ 114 billion to $ 119 billion – the main part of them will be associated with infrastructure expenses. The company intends to expand the staff of employees for the work of infrastructure, the monetization area, Reality Labs divisions, areas of generative AI, work with regulators and compliance with laws. At the end of December, the number of META✴ personnel exceeded 74,000 people, which is 10 % more than a year earlier.