Artificial Intelligence
AI Future: Meta’s Superintelligence, Google’s Age Estimator & Investment Talk
Updated on Thu, Jul 31, 2025
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It’s been a month since the second fiscal quarter of the year ended, and most companies are smack dab in the middle of reporting their performance over Q2-2025, as well as outlining future investment plans—and it’s no surprise that some of the biggest winners are artificial intelligence (AI) companies.
This also includes tech giants who are backing the technology to be the torchbearer for future innovation.
Chief among these companies is OpenAI, the leader of the sector, which nearly doubled its revenue this year, a source told The Information. The company is said to have reached $12 billion in annualized revenue, meaning it’s making $1 billion in revenue per month.
The report also noted that OpenAI raised its cash burn projection from $1 billion to $8 billion in 2025, as OpenAI's ChatGPT witnesses around 700 million weekly active users, spanning individual and business customers. This comes as OpenAI provided updates about its $500-billion Project Stargate.
Microsoft also basked in the warmth of AI’s glow, as it reported Azure sales surpassed $75 billion (annually), and outlined plans to spend $30 billion in the current quarter. This marks the company's largest-ever capital expenditure forecast for a single quarter.
Google parent company, Alphabet, said it’s seeing massive demand for its cloud computing services—a surge of nearly 32% (above its estimated 26.5%)—which is why it’s looking at investments reaching around $85 billion, with a focus on data centers.
Meta expects its third-quarter revenue to be between $47.5 billion and $50.5 billion, and said it plans to spend between $66 billion and $72 billion, noting a $2 billion rise in annual capital expenditures forecast. Here, AI tech played an instrumental role in pushing its advertising business.
AI also “led to a 5% increase in time spent on Facebook and 6% on Instagram just this quarter,” according to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO.
These revelations also saw shares soar, with Meta enjoying a 9% jump and Microsoft seeing an 8% gain, resulting in market values growing by $152 billion and $288 billion, respectively, and even inspiring a $500-billion increase in stock market value for AI bigwigs alone.
However, Meta’s announcement also came with a specific theme: Superintelligence.
“We've had a strong quarter both in terms of our business and community ... I'm excited to build personal superintelligence for everyone in the world,” were Zuckerberg’s words that were splattered at the top of the Meta’s press release announcing the company’s second quarter 2025 results.
Meta has its sights on leading the AI sector, as it poaches top talent from OpenAI and Apple with huge salaries and incentives—and a major driving force behind this obsession is superintelligence.
However, for Mark, it’s more than just general superintelligence; he’s looking to achieve personal superintelligence—at least, that’s the title of the article he published on Meta’s website, as a simple text webpage.
“I am extremely optimistic that superintelligence will help humanity accelerate our pace of progress. But perhaps even more important is that superintelligence has the potential to begin a new era of personal empowerment where people will have greater agency to improve the world in the directions they choose,” says Zuckerberg. “Meta's vision is to bring personal superintelligence to everyone. We believe in putting this power in people's hands to direct it towards what they value in their own lives.”
He feels that personal superintelligence can help people achieve their goals, create what they want to see in the world, experience any adventure, be a better friend, and become a better person—and personal devices such as smart glasses will play a key role, as they can see and hear what we see.
He also says they’ll become our primary computing devices, interacting with us through the day.
As such, he even told investors on the quarterly earnings call that people without AI glasses could be at a disadvantage in the future.
“I think in the future, if you don’t have glasses that have AI—or some way to interact with AI—I think you’re … probably [going to] be at a pretty significant cognitive disadvantage compared to other people,” said Zuckerberg.
Currently, Meta has partnered with Ray-Ban and Oakley for AI-enabled smart glasses.
As for superintelligence safety concerns, Zuckerberg said Meta will have to be rigorous about mitigating risks and be careful about which models will see open-source availability.
While superintelligence is still a long way down the road, tech conglomerates are using AI to improve the here and now—especially as far as safety is concerned.
Google pulled out a variety of moves in this department.
Just as YouTube was named in the Australian government’s list of banned platforms for users under the age of 16, the video streaming giant announced it was extending its existing built-in protections to more teens on its platform using AI and machine learning (ML).
It plans to use age estimation technology to ensure younger viewers and adults are provided with age-appropriate content.
However, this feature is currently available only for users in the United States.
Still, it’s a good one, right?
That’s what Google thinks—which is why it’s bringing the feature to Google, to identify (or guess) U.S. users that are under the age of 18.
In a similar fashion to what it brought to YouTube, Google will launch several safety protections and features across various products and apps when a user is identified to be under 18.
These include turning on YouTube Digital Wellbeing tools; reminders to take a break or go to bed; adding safeguards to content recommendations; limiting repetitive views of some kinds of content; disabling Timeline in Maps; disabling personalized advertising; restricting age-sensitive ad categories; and preventing access to apps restricted to adults.
Google plans to add more safety features and protections in the future, saying, “This is just one part of our broader commitment to online safety for young users and families. We've continually invested in technology, policies and literacy resources to better protect kids and teens across our platforms.”
Do you think these safeguards will help Google avoid a ban in Australia come December? Do you think the increase in revenue and investments from tech giants will spur investors to pour in more money?
Let us know in the comments below!
This also includes tech giants who are backing the technology to be the torchbearer for future innovation.
Chief among these companies is OpenAI, the leader of the sector, which nearly doubled its revenue this year, a source told The Information. The company is said to have reached $12 billion in annualized revenue, meaning it’s making $1 billion in revenue per month.
The report also noted that OpenAI raised its cash burn projection from $1 billion to $8 billion in 2025, as OpenAI's ChatGPT witnesses around 700 million weekly active users, spanning individual and business customers. This comes as OpenAI provided updates about its $500-billion Project Stargate.
Microsoft also basked in the warmth of AI’s glow, as it reported Azure sales surpassed $75 billion (annually), and outlined plans to spend $30 billion in the current quarter. This marks the company's largest-ever capital expenditure forecast for a single quarter.
Google parent company, Alphabet, said it’s seeing massive demand for its cloud computing services—a surge of nearly 32% (above its estimated 26.5%)—which is why it’s looking at investments reaching around $85 billion, with a focus on data centers.
Meta expects its third-quarter revenue to be between $47.5 billion and $50.5 billion, and said it plans to spend between $66 billion and $72 billion, noting a $2 billion rise in annual capital expenditures forecast. Here, AI tech played an instrumental role in pushing its advertising business.
AI also “led to a 5% increase in time spent on Facebook and 6% on Instagram just this quarter,” according to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO.
These revelations also saw shares soar, with Meta enjoying a 9% jump and Microsoft seeing an 8% gain, resulting in market values growing by $152 billion and $288 billion, respectively, and even inspiring a $500-billion increase in stock market value for AI bigwigs alone.
However, Meta’s announcement also came with a specific theme: Superintelligence.
“We've had a strong quarter both in terms of our business and community ... I'm excited to build personal superintelligence for everyone in the world,” were Zuckerberg’s words that were splattered at the top of the Meta’s press release announcing the company’s second quarter 2025 results.
Meta has its sights on leading the AI sector, as it poaches top talent from OpenAI and Apple with huge salaries and incentives—and a major driving force behind this obsession is superintelligence.
However, for Mark, it’s more than just general superintelligence; he’s looking to achieve personal superintelligence—at least, that’s the title of the article he published on Meta’s website, as a simple text webpage.
“I am extremely optimistic that superintelligence will help humanity accelerate our pace of progress. But perhaps even more important is that superintelligence has the potential to begin a new era of personal empowerment where people will have greater agency to improve the world in the directions they choose,” says Zuckerberg. “Meta's vision is to bring personal superintelligence to everyone. We believe in putting this power in people's hands to direct it towards what they value in their own lives.”
He feels that personal superintelligence can help people achieve their goals, create what they want to see in the world, experience any adventure, be a better friend, and become a better person—and personal devices such as smart glasses will play a key role, as they can see and hear what we see.
He also says they’ll become our primary computing devices, interacting with us through the day.
As such, he even told investors on the quarterly earnings call that people without AI glasses could be at a disadvantage in the future.
“I think in the future, if you don’t have glasses that have AI—or some way to interact with AI—I think you’re … probably [going to] be at a pretty significant cognitive disadvantage compared to other people,” said Zuckerberg.
Currently, Meta has partnered with Ray-Ban and Oakley for AI-enabled smart glasses.
As for superintelligence safety concerns, Zuckerberg said Meta will have to be rigorous about mitigating risks and be careful about which models will see open-source availability.
While superintelligence is still a long way down the road, tech conglomerates are using AI to improve the here and now—especially as far as safety is concerned.
Google pulled out a variety of moves in this department.
Just as YouTube was named in the Australian government’s list of banned platforms for users under the age of 16, the video streaming giant announced it was extending its existing built-in protections to more teens on its platform using AI and machine learning (ML).
It plans to use age estimation technology to ensure younger viewers and adults are provided with age-appropriate content.
However, this feature is currently available only for users in the United States.
Still, it’s a good one, right?
That’s what Google thinks—which is why it’s bringing the feature to Google, to identify (or guess) U.S. users that are under the age of 18.
In a similar fashion to what it brought to YouTube, Google will launch several safety protections and features across various products and apps when a user is identified to be under 18.
These include turning on YouTube Digital Wellbeing tools; reminders to take a break or go to bed; adding safeguards to content recommendations; limiting repetitive views of some kinds of content; disabling Timeline in Maps; disabling personalized advertising; restricting age-sensitive ad categories; and preventing access to apps restricted to adults.
Google plans to add more safety features and protections in the future, saying, “This is just one part of our broader commitment to online safety for young users and families. We've continually invested in technology, policies and literacy resources to better protect kids and teens across our platforms.”
Do you think these safeguards will help Google avoid a ban in Australia come December? Do you think the increase in revenue and investments from tech giants will spur investors to pour in more money?
Let us know in the comments below!
First published on Thu, Jul 31, 2025
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