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Meta's AI-first playbook: social ads fund superintelligence push as Reality Labs narrows to practical AR/VR hardware
Meta's Family of Apps (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Threads) remains the cash engine with roughly 3.6 billion daily users, funding the Meta Superintelligence Labs, the Llama and Muse model families, and Meta AI assistants embedded across all its apps. Generative AI is being built into the ads matching engine while commercial messaging and business tools expand on WhatsApp and Messenger, and Reality Labs has pulled back from grand metaverse ambitions toward commercially viable AR/VR hardware.
Confirms the high-margin ad business is bankrolling the AI and XR bets that will drive Meta's next phase of growth.
Reported by Fortune Global 500 company analysis: Meta Platforms
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