Meta Platforms, Inc. Q4 FY2023 Earnings Call

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Overall Performance

  • Q4 revenue reached $40.1 billion, up 25% year-over-year (22% constant currency). This reflects a strong acceleration compared to Q3’s momentum and marks a return to robust growth after a challenging 2022.
  • Full-year 2023 revenue for Family of Apps was $133 billion, up 16% year-over-year.
  • Net income in Q4 was $14 billion, with EPS of $5.33, supported by significantly reduced expenses (down 8% year-over-year).
  • Operating margin improved to 41% versus 20% a year prior, highlighting the success of the “year of efficiency” initiatives.

Key Strategic Themes

  • AI is now the company’s core long-term priority, including the development of “general intelligence” capabilities for reasoning, planning, memory, and coding.
  • Meta expects to have 350,000 H100 GPUs by end of 2024 and 600,000 H100-equivalent compute capacity, illustrating a major infrastructure ramp.
  • Llama 3 is currently in training, and Meta plans future generations (Llama 5–7) for more advanced AI functionality.
  • Open-sourcing remains central: Meta asserts it improves model quality, safety, recruitment, and industry standardization.
  • AI assistants and creator/business AIs expected to roll out more broadly in 2024, eventually reaching billions of users.

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Operator: Good afternoon. My name is Krista and I'll be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Meta Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. Ken Dorell, Meta's Director of Investor Relations, you may begin. Ken Dorell: Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to Meta Platform's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Earnings Conference Call. Joining me today to discuss our results are Mark Zuckerberg, CEO; and Susan Li, CFO. Before we get started, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that our remarks today will include forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause these results to differ materially are set forth in today's earnings press release and in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements that we make on this call are based on assumptions as of today, and we undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events. During this call, we will present both GAAP and certain non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measures is included in today's earnings press release. The earnings press release and an accompanying investor presentation are available on our website at investor.fb.com. And now I'd like to turn the call over to Mark. Mark Zuckerberg: All right. Hi, e

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