Income from the fourth quarter of Meta Platforms could Wall Street Wall Streetday, but the company predicted that sales in the first quarter may not meet predictions, sending mixed signals of how bets on valuable artificial intelligence tools 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 shares were flat after the market was closed, but it grew as CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke optimally about the initiatives of the flaw and the company’s conviction that the open source is the right strategy as a Chinese company launched Deepseek Open Source Source he, who tanked 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. Company relics in its social media advertising business to cover costs related to its ambitions and investments in “Metavers” technologies such as smart glasses and increased reality systems.
Last week, Zuckerberg announced that Meta Planns capital spending up to $ 65 billion in 2025 to expand its infrastructure, increasing employment for it.
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 Meta’s Q4 gangsters clearly show that the risk of AD remains the blood of the company’s life. That is to say, the biggest question that goes in 2025 has nothing to do with today’s income – is whether the bet of that of Mark Zuckerberg’s 60-65 billion dollars will pay, ”said Jeremy Goldman, leading analyst in Emarker.
The Daily Active People (DAP), a metric users 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 the Chinese start Deepseek of his latest models he caused a sale in global technology shares on Monday in concerts about the increase in the costs of him in the US
Deepseek has said that its models either match or further match the US high rivals with a part of the cost, including the Meta Llama’s own models, challenging the predominant look that the scaling of it requires computer and extensive 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 apply 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 the required Nvidia chips, the one to end the year with over 1.3 million GPU processors (GPUs) and bring about 1 gigavas of computer power online, said Zuckerberg on Friday on a Facebook after you have described 2025 of the 2025 2025 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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