{"id":12977,"date":"2025-01-29T15:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/economicherald.net\/?p=12977"},"modified":"2025-01-30T15:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T20:37:18","slug":"meta-calms-investors-on-ai-spending-and-deepseek-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/economicherald.net\/?p=12977","title":{"rendered":"Meta Calms Investors on AI Spending and DeepSeek Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Meta<\/strong> reassured investors about its <strong>AI investment strategy<\/strong> and potential competition from Chinese AI firm <strong>DeepSeek<\/strong> during its fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Revenue Beats Estimates Despite Soft Forecast<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The company reported <strong>$48.39 billion in revenue<\/strong> for Q4, surpassing analyst expectations of <strong>$46.98 billion<\/strong>. However, its <strong>Q1 2025 sales forecast<\/strong> fell short of projections, though investors appeared focused on other issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Zuckerberg Discusses AI, Content Moderation, and DeepSeek<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>During the earnings call, <strong>CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/strong> addressed Meta\u2019s <strong>content moderation policy<\/strong>, its AI spending plans for 2025, and competition from TikTok. 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