Meta Platforms:Quarterly Results/2024 Q3: Difference between revisions

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Sources: [https://seekingalpha.com/article/4731243-meta-platforms-inc-meta-q3-2024-earnings-call-transcript Q3 2024 Meta Platforms Earnings Call Transcript] | [https://events.q4inc.com/earnings/META/2024 Q3 2024 Meta Platforms Webcast]
Sources: [https://seekingalpha.com/article/4731243-meta-platforms-inc-meta-q3-2024-earnings-call-transcript Q3 2024 Meta Platforms Earnings Call Transcript] | [https://events.q4inc.com/earnings/META/2024 Q3 2024 Meta Platforms Webcast]


=== Meta AI ===
=== Artificial Intelligence (AI) ===


* CEO Mark Zuckerberg said they are seeing rapid adoption of Meta AI and Llama, which are becoming industry standards.
==== Core AI ====
 
* CEO Mark Zuckerberg said improvements to their AI driven feed and video recommendations have driven a 8% increase in time spent on Facebook and 6% in Instagram this year alone.
* Last month, more than a million advertisers used Gen AI tools to create more than 15 million ads, Zuckerberg said.
* Businesses that use image generation tools see a 7% increase in conversion and there is likely to be more upside, Zuckerberg pointed out.
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==== Meta AI ====
 
* Zuckerberg said they are seeing rapid adoption of Meta AI and Llama, which are becoming industry standards.
 
*Zuckerberg pointed out that Meta AI now has more than 500 million monthly actives.
 
==== Llama ====
 
* Zuckerberg  said Llama token usage has grown exponentially this year.
* Zuckerberg said he is excited on Llama 4 which is under development. He added that Llama 4 is being trained on a cluster that is bigger than 100,000 H100s or bigger than clusters of competitors.
* Zuckerberg indicated that smaller Llama 4 models will probably be ready early next year and they are going to be a big deal on several areas such as new modalities capabilities, stronger reasoning and much faster.
* Zuckerberg said it has become clear to him that new AI will be incremental to the core business. "It's clear that there are a lot of new opportunities to use new AI advances to accelerate our core business that should have strong ROI over the next few years, so I think we should invest more there."
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=== Capital expenditures ===
 
* Zuckerberg said it's clear that their AI infrastructure requires serious investments.
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=== Family of Apps ===
=== Family of Apps ===
* Mark Zuckerberg said U.S remains the fastest-growing country for WhatsApp.
* Mark Zuckerberg said U.S remains the fastest-growing country for WhatsApp.
* Zuckerberg said they continue to see good adoption of Facebook among young adults in U.S.
* Zuckerberg said they continue to see positive trends among young adults on Facebook in U.S.
* Zuckerberg pointed out that global growth remains strong at Instagram.
* Zuckerberg said Threads now has 275 million monthly actives. That it's achieving more than 1 million signups per day. He added that engagement at Threads is growing too.
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