Geoffrey Seiler, The Motley Fool
Wed, July 8, 2026 astatine 9:30 AM CDT 3 min read
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) started the period with a bang. Its shares climbed 9% connected July 1 aft the institution revealed that it volition statesman leasing immoderate of its surplus computing powerfulness to customers. The motorboat of this caller cloud computing concern was successful enactment with earlier comments from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said connected Meta's first-quarter net league telephone that the societal media elephantine could merchantability immoderate of its capableness astatine a premium if it feels that it has overbuilt for its in-house needs.
According to Bloomberg, Meta is inactive debating whether to connection AI models that tally connected its infrastructure, oregon simply merchantability nonstop entree to computing power. Meta has developed its ain ample connection models (LLMs), though they're chiefly for interior use. Specifically, the institution deploys these models to optimize its contented proposal engine, helping support users connected its sites longer, and to assistance advertisers amended people and person customers.
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Earlier this week, it introduced its archetypal representation procreation model: Muse Image, which was developed by its Superintelligence Lab, and which volition enactment successful conjunction with its Muse Spark substance model. Muse Image volition assistance powerfulness Meta's advertiser-focused representation procreation tools to assistance marketers much easy make and set advertisement campaigns. Muse Image volition beryllium disposable to consumers for escaped connected a constricted basis, and Meta volition besides connection a monthly subscription.
Offering some unreality computing capableness and its AI models would assistance Meta vie with Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet -- the world's 3 biggest unreality computing providers -- and supply the institution with different gross source. Most importantly, though, the announcement should assistance easiness investors' concerns astir the company's precocious spending connected AI infrastructure. Meta has announced plans to walk up to $145 cardinal connected superior expenditures (capex) this year, mostly tied to its AI efforts. Creating a unreality computing limb would let it to allocate and displacement compute capableness betwixt itself and customers, giving it much flexibility.
Is the banal a buy?
In my view, Meta is 1 of the astir undervalued mega-cap tech stocks successful the marketplace today. It trades astatine a guardant price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of conscionable 19 times 2026 expert estimates and beneath 17 times 2027 estimates/ Meanwhile, successful Q1, it grew its gross by 33% twelvemonth implicit year.

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