Meta Investment increased in Al

Meta Platforms dramatically increased investment in artificial intelligence and virtual reality, but the market has not yet seen a significant impact. Post financial report The stock of companies dropped by 12%, which is approximately $200 billion of market cap.

Meta cost has increased dramatically over the last year. The operating costs increased by $7 billion, investment in the date centers and new equipment -- almost $20 billion, and the Reality Labs section was carried down in $19.1 billion in 2025, more than $17.7 billion earlier. Only in the fourth quarter of the VR- unit lost $6.2 billion. In this income, Reality Labs remain small -- about $955 million per quarter and roughly $2.2 billion a year.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that investment is focused on development. Superphysical Lab, creating new experimental AIC models, smartglasses and devices, and also building a profitable VRT ecosystem. At the same time, the company has no products in the area of Al or VR that bring steady and high income.

Among the current developments, the Meta AI assistant, a video player, the Vibes smart Vagard and Horizon goggles, but all of these things remain in the experiments and have no mass coins. In this background, the company cut about 10% of the employees of Relativity Labs and plans to close some VRD studios and end supporting the Workromons plugin.

PDD: Meta reported that on June 15th, the company closes Your VRD metaUniverse. The last month Meta announced strategy to change Horizon Worlds, focusing solely on the mobile version, and this month, the company announced when the VRD version was stopped.