Meta (Meta+0.60 %) Mark Zuckerberg, the highest executive officer, is planning to invest “$ 10 billions of dollars” in artificial intelligence infrastructure over the long term, and raised about 4 % after business hours after business hours. I did.
The company has exceeded Wall Street’s expectations for the fourth quarter revenue promoted by AI, smart glass and social media.
High -tech giants reported $ 48.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024. This increased 21 % year -on -year. Meta reported $ 8.02 per share and net income was $ 20.8 billion. The company’s all -year revenue was $ 164.5 billion, an increase of 22 % since the previous year.
According to an analyst edited by FactSet, the meta was expected to report $ 47 billion in the quarter of December. Net income was estimated to be $ 17.4 billion, and the profit per share was expected to be $ 6.75.
In the first quarter, the profit guidance was set between $ 39.5 billion and $ 41.8 billion. This was not expected to be $ 41.7 billion.
The company’s shares have increased by 0.32 %. Meta shares have increased by about 15.5 % this year.
“We are making good progress in the future of AI, glass and social media,” Zuckerberg said. statement。 “I’m looking forward to the further expanding these initiatives in 2025.”
Last week, Zuckerberg said in A Post on Facebook What a high -tech giant is planning Invest a $ 60 billion to $ 65 billion capital expenditure This year is AI. The chief of the meta hopes that Meta AI will “become a major assistant to provide more than 1 billion services” in 2025, and it is expected that the company’s LLAMA 4 model will “lead the ART model”. He said. He said that the company is also planning to build an AI engineer that can provide more code through R & D initiatives.
According to Zuckerberg, META has built a data center with more than two gigawatts, a site that can cover most of the Manhattan to enhance the expansion of AI. According to Zuckerberg, the data center won one Gigawatt’s Compute Power Online in 2025 and added that META had more than 1.3 million graphic processing units (GPU) by the end of this year.
According to Zuckerberg, Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and Reality Labs, has plans to “significantly” the growth of the AI team, and has “capital that will continue to invest in the next few years.”
Earlier this month, Zuckerberg sent a message to the company manager Reduce personnel by 5 % -Ar or about 3,600 employment, Bloomberg reported. Cuts are intended for “low performance”, which is said to be exchanged in the second half of the year.
“We usually manage people who have not satisfied their expectations in the year, but we intend to reduce the wider performance basis in this cycle,” Zuckerberg states in an internal message.
In September, Zuckerberg announced New device and AI function In a company’s open source, multi -modalrama 3.2 large language model, and an annual meta -connected meeting, including the second repetition update of the company’s Ray -Ban (Elle-0.67 %) Smart glass. He also showed off the company’s first complete prototype of the company’s Orion extension reality glasses.
