Meta plans to issue a publicly traded class of shares without voting rights, distributed to current shareholders.
The company says existing Class A and B voting rights will remain unchanged.
The plan offers a concrete example of how share classes can serve corporate financing and compensation goals while keeping voting structures in place.
The new shares will be publicly traded. Meta plans to use them to raise money, pay employees, make acquisitions and for other corporate purposes. The company said the new class will not change the voting rights of current Class A and B shareholders or the founder-led management. Meta says the new shares will give it greater investment flexibility, including as it attributes part of its growth to artificial intelligence.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that within a month and a half, more than 10 million people in the U.S. and Canada had created personal assistants with Muse. He also said that Muse was at the top of the App Store almost every day. Meta wants to expand its use so that it can eventually serve billions of people.
Meta this year introduced the Muse Spark and Muse Glimmer AI models, and more recently, the Muse Wonder and Muse Spark Open. In Muse Spark Open, the model’s parameters—the settings that determine how it works—are publicly available so that third parties can use and improve upon it. The company also introduced Muse Code, an AI assistant for software developers.
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Meta's revenue in the third quarter reached $64 billion. It was up 26% compared to the same quarter a year earlier and exceeded Wall Street expectations. However, the company's expenses increased 68% compared to the same period last year.
Reality Labs, which develops Meta's augmented reality glasses, virtual reality headsets and related software, is still losing money. The company predicts that losses will fall to $18 billion to $19 billion, down from 2025 levels.
Meta is monitoring legal and regulatory matters that could significantly impact its business and financial results. Li said the company is under scrutiny for youth-related issues in various markets and that several related lawsuits are expected in the U.S. in the coming months.
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