“We had strong business performance in 2025,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO. “I’m looking forward to advancing personal superintelligence for people around the world in 2026.”
Meta Platforms isn’t just a social media company anymore; it’s an AI powerhouse with deep pockets and even deeper ambitions. In its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results, the tech giant reported record-breaking revenue and a strategic shift that marks the end of the “Metaverse-first” era and the beginning of the “Superintelligence” age.
Meta crushed Wall Street expectations, posting Q4 revenue of $59.89 billion, a 24% jump year-over-year. For the full year, the company pulled in a staggering $200.97 billion. This growth was fuelled by a “demand machine” in its core advertising business, which saw an 18% increase in ad impressions and a healthy rise in the average price per ad.
However, the real headline isn’t what Meta earned, but what it plans to spend. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a massive capital expenditure forecast for 2026, ranging between $115 billion and $135 billion. For context, that is nearly double the $72.2 billion spent in 2025.
The driver behind this historic spending spree is “Meta Superintelligence Labs,” a new division dedicated to creating what Zuckerberg calls “personal superintelligence.”
Zuckerberg described a future where Meta’s apps move beyond simple recommendation algorithms to become AI agents that understand a user’s history, interests and personal goals.
This vision is already trickling into hardware. Sales of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses more than tripled in 2025, with Zuckerberg calling them “the ultimate incarnation” of AI—devices that can see and hear what the user does in real-time.
With 3.58 billion people now using a Meta app every day, the company is betting its massive cash reserves that AI, not just the Metaverse, is the bridge to its next decade of dominance.
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