Prediction: This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Will Join Nvidia, Apple, and Alphabet in the $3 Trillion Club Before 2028

As of this penning (Feb. 25), determination are lone 3 companies with a marketplace capitalization implicit $3 trillion: Nvidia, Apple, and Alphabet. Microsoft erstwhile boasted a $3 trillion valuation, but implicit the past month, its stock terms has slid capable to sound the Windows shaper retired of the exclusive club.

Further down the database of trillion-dollar stocks is Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), which is presently valued astir $1.6 trillion.

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I'm going to interruption down however Meta is transforming its advertizing empire acknowledgment to AI. From there, I'll marque the lawsuit for wherefore Meta could perchance execute a $3 trillion marketplace headdress wrong the adjacent 2 years.

At the halfway of Meta's AI roadmap is simply a caller instrumentality learning merchandise called Advantage+. Advantage+ helps marketers automate their advertisement campaigns, streamlining advertisement instauration and demographic targeting.

The halfway thought is that AI helps marketers get a amended consciousness of which ads resonate with antithetic lawsuit types. From there, advertisers tin strategically allocate their budgets crossed Meta's household of apps -- Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp -- depending connected what they are trying to merchantability and to whom.

One happening to cognize astir Advantage+ is that it is simply a comparatively caller merchandise that Meta perpetually iterates and to which it adds caller features. For this reason, absorption tends to supply sporadic updates connected the advancement of Advantage+.

During the 3rd quarter, Meta CFO Susan Li shared that Advantage+ had reached a $60 cardinal yearly gross tally rate. While a caller header fig was not revealed during the fourth-quarter net call, Meta's absorption shared conscionable capable to connote that its AI efforts are continuing to wage off.

In Q4, Meta's video procreation tools, which are portion of the Creative suite underneath the Advantage+ umbrella, deed a $10 cardinal yearly gross tally rate. Growth from this circumstantial conception outpaced the summation from wide advertisement gross by 3x 4th implicit quarter.

In addition, Meta's next-generation attribution instrumentality drove a 24% summation successful incremental conversions compared to the company's modular model. This caller attribution diagnostic has already achieved a multi-billion-dollar yearly tally complaint since its motorboat 7 months ago.

In 2024, Meta spent $39 cardinal connected superior expenditures (capex). Last year, the institution accelerated its walk by 85%, bringing full capex to $72 billion. During the Q4 net call, absorption revealed that Meta could walk up to $135 cardinal connected capex this twelvemonth -- astir treble the magnitude compared to 2025 levels.