Revenue from the fourth quarter of the flaws of platforms defeated Wall Street’s expectations Wednesday, but the company predicted sales in the first quarter may not meet predictions, sending mixed signals of how bets on artificial intelligence are paying .
The parent company on Facebook and Instagram awaits revenue from the first quarter between $ 39.5 billion and $ 41.8 billion, compared to the average estimate of analysts of $ 41.72 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.
Meta’s shares were flat after the market was closed, but it was set up after CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke optimistically about the initiatives and the company’s conviction that the open source is the right strategy as a Chinese company started Deepseek Open AI , which tank global markets.
“There will be an open -source standard globally,” Zuckerberg said in a conference call. “Important is important that is an American standard.”
The forecast raised fresh questions about the expenses of the flawed capital. The company relies on its essential social media advertising business to cover the costs associated with its ambitions and investments in “Metavers” technologies such as smart glasses and increased reality systems.
Last week, Zuckerberg announced that Meta plans capital spending up to $ 65 billion in 2025 to expand its infrastructure, while also increasing employment for its roles.
On Wednesday, Meta said he expected total costs for 2025 to be in the range of $ 114 billion to $ 119 billion, from a total of $ 95 billion in 2024.
“The results of the Q4 gangsters clearly show that advertising revenues remain the blood of the company. That is to say, the biggest question that goes in 2025 has nothing to do with today’s income – is about whether the infrastructure bet That Mark Zuckerberg is $ 60-65 billion will pay, ”said Jeremy Goldman, leading analyst in Emarker.
The Daily Active People (DAP), a metric metric uses to follow unique users who open any of its applications within a day, raised about 5% from a year ago to 3.35 billion.
Meta results come after the start of Chinese start Deepseek of his latest models he caused a sale in global technology shares on Monday for concerns about the increase in the costs of him in the US
Deepseek has said that its models either match or further match US rivals with a part of the cost, including the Meta Llama’s own models, challenging the predominant look that the scaling of it requires widespread computing power and investment.
Zuckerberg said it was too early to show how Deepseek’s emergence would affect meta investments and capital expenditure strategy.
But what is clear are the lessons the new company can include in meta products. “There are a number of things that they have advances that we will hope to implement in our systems,” Zuckerberg said, addressing questions about Deepseek.
Progress can increase control by investors concerned about the company’s heavy expenses for him, although it may also benefit Meta if it successfully brings the cost of building and supporting models.
Meta-among the best buyers of chips he sought after Nvidia-chenon to complete the year with over 1.3 million graphic processors (GPU) and bring about 1 gigawatt of computing energy online, said Zuckerberg on a Friday Facebook posting describing 2025 of the company 2025 spending goals.
He said this month that Meta would rest 5% of “lower performers” and warned employees about more work downs this year to increase performance.
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