META2026 Q2Technology

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Financial Performance Summary

Capital expenditures (incl. finance lease principal payments) were $31.1B; free cash flow was $784M; ended Q2 with $90.3B cash & marketable securities and $83.7B debt.
Excluding Q2 legal charges and severance, operating income would have increased 9% YoY; tax rate for the quarter was 16%.
Net income was $15.8B (EPS $6.18).
Q2 2026 Family of Apps revenue was $60.4B, up 28% YoY; Family of Apps ad revenue was $59.4B, up 27% YoY (26% on constant currency).
Q2 expenses were $42.0B, up 55% YoY, including $2.4B legal charges related to proceedings and $1.2B severance tied to the May 2026 headcount reduction.
Q2 total revenue was $60.8B, up 28% YoY (27% on constant currency); quarterly GAAP operating income was $18.8B, down 8% YoY with 31% operating margin.
Reality Labs Q2 revenue was $431M, up 16% YoY, driven by strong AI glasses revenue, partially offset by lower Quest headset sales; quarterly “other revenue” reached $1.0B, up 73% YoY (primarily WhatsApp paid messaging and subscriptions).

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LLMs embedded into Instagram/Facebook recommendation and content understanding

Management described integrating LLMs into recommendation systems to add first-principles understanding of content and deeper awareness of user goals and interests.
They cited a milestone where every public Instagram Reels and Feed post is automatically processed through an LLM and analyzed across dimensions such as topics and tone.
They said Q2 began using Muse family models for content understanding (e.g., video topic classification and summarization) with positive early results.
Management discussed expanding LLM-based content understanding signals into downstream stacks for ranking, recommendations, and content policy enforcement.
For engagement, they highlighted a 15 basis point increase in Instagram sessions from a large Reels/Feed ranking improvement release and early Feed results said to be comparable.

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META2026 Q2Technology

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Open source is important… but we’ve always basically said that we were going to do a mix of open and closed, and that continues to be true.

Mark Zuckerberg

CEO, Meta Platforms, Inc.

Context

Zuckerberg addressed how open source fits alongside Meta’s closed model strategy. He said open source helps create positive feedback loops through community investment and improvements to the ecosystem. At the same time, he argued Meta needs sovereignty over model building to ensure trustworthy personal superintelligence experiences. He emphasized that open source does not eliminate the API and compute/inference advantage required to run models efficiently.

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META2026 Q2Technology

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$1.0B quarterly other revenue

Other revenue crossed $1B for the first time

Susan Li said for the first time, quarterly Family of Apps other revenue reached $1 billion, growing 73% YoY, mainly driven by WhatsApp paid messaging and subscriptions.

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LLMs embedded into Instagram/Facebook recommendation and content understanding

Management described integrating LLMs into recommendation systems to add first-principles understanding of content and deeper awareness of user goals and interests.
They cited a milestone where every public Instagram Reels and Feed post is automatically processed through an LLM and analyzed across dimensions such as topics and tone.
They said Q2 began using Muse family models for content understanding (e.g., video topic classification and summarization) with positive early results.
Management discussed expanding LLM-based content understanding signals into downstream stacks for ranking, recommendations, and content policy enforcement.
For engagement, they highlighted a 15 basis point increase in Instagram sessions from a large Reels/Feed ranking improvement release and early Feed results said to be comparable.

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META2026 Q2Technology

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Open source is important… but we’ve always basically said that we were going to do a mix of open and closed, and that continues to be true.

Mark Zuckerberg

CEO, Meta Platforms, Inc.

Context

Meta Platforms, Inc.

META2026 Q2Technology

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$1.0B quarterly other revenue

Other revenue crossed $1B for the first time

Susan Li said for the first time, quarterly Family of Apps other revenue reached $1 billion, growing 73% YoY, mainly driven by WhatsApp paid messaging and subscriptions.

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