Meta Stock Soars 4.67% on AI Advancements

On May 12, 2025, Meta's stock rose by 4.67% in pre-market trading, reflecting investor optimism and anticipation of the company's latest developments.

Meta recently announced the launch of its new 3D foundation model, AssetGen 2.0. This model allows users to create high-quality 3D assets through text and image prompts, marking a significant advancement in the company's AI capabilities. AssetGen 2.0 is composed of two models developed by Meta: one for generating 3D meshes and another for generating textures. The model uses a single-stage 3D diffusion process to provide 3D meshes with significantly improved detail and fidelity, ensuring that 3D assets have highly detailed geometric consistency.

Meta is currently using AssetGen 2.0 to create 3D worlds and plans to make it available to Horizon creators in the second half of this year. The company aims to help users easily create 3D experiences and open up new creative possibilities for artists, designers, and developers. In the coming months, AssetGen will serve as a foundational building block, enabling the automatic generation of entire 3D scenes and allowing users to achieve step-by-step functional changes during the creation process. This new model can generate complex 3D environments by sequentially generating individual objects, structures, or elements using simple text or image prompts.

Meta is also expanding its AI product line with the release of the Meta AI assistant application, which supports voice, text, and multimodal interactions. This application integrates multiple open-source large models, optimizing Meta's AI product line and platform ecosystem. The company is actively laying the groundwork for consumer-level AI applications, reducing its reliance on traditional social media businesses. The increasing popularity of multimodal AI applications like Meta AI is driving higher performance requirements for hardware devices, such as smartphones and wearable devices, which in turn boosts investment in chip manufacturing and hardware production. Additionally, the training and optimization of multimodal AI models require large amounts of high-quality annotated data, stimulating growth in the data annotation and processing industry.

Meta has also partnered with Motorola to launch the Smart Connect application, which enhances the VR experience for users of Meta Quest 3 and the upcoming Quest 3S headsets. This application allows users to stream phone content directly into the VR environment, eliminating the need to remove the headset and providing a more immersive digital experience. Users can enjoy high-definition videos, music, games, and perform multiple tasks such as browsing the web and checking social media within the VR environment. This seamless integration of smartphones and VR headsets offers users a more immersive and convenient digital world.