Meta Stock Soars 5.65% on AI Advancements

On May 12, 2025, Meta's stock rose by 5.65% 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, enhancing Meta's AI ecosystem and reducing its reliance on traditional social media business. The increasing popularity of multimodal AI applications like Meta AI is driving demand for higher-performance hardware, such as smartphones and wearable devices, which in turn boosts the AI hardware market. 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.

In another significant development, Meta has partnered with Motorola to launch the Smart Connect application. This innovative app allows users of Meta Quest 3 and the upcoming Quest 3S VR headsets to stream phone content directly into their VR experience. Users can enjoy high-definition videos, music, games, and perform multiple tasks such as browsing the web and checking social media without removing their VR headsets, enhancing the overall VR experience.