Meta Tops Q1 Expectations With $42B in Revenue, Zuckerberg Talks Up Meta AI App

Meta saw reduced U.S. ad spend from Asia-based ecommerce exporters

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The numbers

$42 billion: Meta’s Q1 revenue, up 16% YoY 
$41.4 billion: Meta’s ad revenue, up 13% YoY
$16.6 billion: Net income for January-to-March period
3.4 billion: People now using at least one of Meta’s apps each day

The water cooler talk

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, on a call with investors, touted the company’s ambitious AI investments, with a focus on deploying AI agents—technology that performs tasks on behalf of humans—in the coming years. He envisions this technology playing a crucial role in making advertising a significantly larger contributor to global GDP.

“AI is generating better creative options for many businesses.