01/30/2025
Just shared Meta's quarterly earnings report. We continue to make good progress on AI, glasses, and the future of social media. I'm excited to see these efforts scale further in 2025. Here's the transcript of what I said on the call:
We ended 2024 on a strong note with now more than 3.3B people using at least one of our apps each day. This is going to be a really big year. I know it always feels like every year is a big year, but more than usual it feels like the trajectory for most of our long-term initiatives is going to be a lot clearer by the end of this year. So I keep telling our teams that this is going to be intense, because we have about 48 weeks to get on the trajectory we want to be on.
In AI, I expect this to be the year when a highly intelligent and personalized AI assistant reaches more than 1 billion people, and I expect Meta AI to be that leading AI assistant. Meta AI is already used by more people than any other assistant, and once a service reaches that kind of scale it usually develops a durable long-term advantage. We have a really exciting roadmap for this year with a unique vision focused on personalization. We believe that people don't all want to use the same AI -- people want their AI to be personalized to their context, their interests, their personality, their culture, and how they think about the world. I don't think that there's going to be one big AI that everyone just uses the same thing. People will get to choose how AI works and looks like for them. I continue to think that this is going to be one of the most transformative products that we've made. We have some fun surprises that I think people are going to like this year.
I think this very well could be the year when Llama and open source become the most advanced and widely used AI models as well. Llama 4 is making great progress in training. Llama 4 mini is done with pre-training and our reasoning models and larger model are looking good too. Our goal with Llama 3 was to make o
