Meta (META): FY26 Q3 earnings call, Oct 21, 2026

Wed, Oct 21Earnings callSpeaker-labelled transcriptMeta

On its Oct 21, 2026 earnings call (FY26 Q3), Meta said 11 of the 24 words Kalshi and Polymarket listed; Parrot’s count agreed with all 24 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each, with timed clips.

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24 words · 11 settled yes · our count agreed on 24 of 24
Listed words: result, our count under the market rule, the count over every speaker, whether they agree, and the probability published before the event
WordResultOur countAll speakersAgreesProbabilityClipMarket
Muse 10+ timesYes9797✓35%transcripts from the transcript modelHear it 2:07, Muse 10+ times–
Muse 3+ timesYes9197✓54%transcripts from the transcript modelHear it 2:07, Muse (3+ times)–
AI / Artificial Intelligence 30+ timesYes3535✓79%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcriptsHear it 3:31, AI / Artificial Intelligence 30+ times–
Revenue 5+ timesYes3232✓88%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcriptsHear it 4:50, Revenue 5+ times–
SI / Super Intelligence Yes1212✓86%transcripts from the transcript modelHear it 2:02, SI / Super Intelligence–
Facebook 10+ timesYes1010✓73%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcriptsHear it 1:39, Facebook 10+ times–
Reality Lab Yes55✓88%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcriptsHear it 10:20, Reality Lab–
Advertising Yes56✓62%n=4+tx from settlement history blended with transcriptsHear it 21:09, Advertising–
VR / Virtual Reality Yes44✓44%n=5+tx from settlement history blended with transcriptsHear it 11:18, VR / Virtual Reality–
Cloud Yes11✓81%n=4+tx from settlement history blended with transcriptsHear it 15:15, Cloud–
Dividend Yes11✓31%n=4+tx from settlement history blended with transcriptsHear it 29:04, Dividend–
Silicon No00✓65%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Ray-Ban No00✓60%n=5+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Hiring No00✓58%n=4+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
World Cup No00✓42%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Oakley No00✓42%n=4+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Algorithm No00✓38%n=4+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Llama No00✓29%n=5+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
UK / United Kingdom No00✓20%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Nebius / Hyperion No00✓19%transcripts from the transcript model–
Hyperion No00✓12%n=4+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
TikTok No00✓12%n=5+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Age Verification No00✓11%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Nebius No00✓11%n=1+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–

Market prices are mid quotes from Kalshi and Polymarket, shown for context, may be delayed by several minutes and are not a signal. Quotes as of Oct 22, 2026 15:30 UTC.

Transcript

quotes of at most 25 words

Speaker-labelled transcript · Source and credits · Used to count words; quotes of at most 25 words.

3 matches for “WhatsApp”; 3 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Mark Zuckerbergcompanyprepared · 1:49Hear it 1:49, Mark Zuckerberg

…has now overtaken X in monthly actives and continues to grow quickly. WhatsApp is hitting all-time highs in messaging and is becoming an increasingly important…

Susan Licompanyprepared · 14:19Hear it 14:13, Susan Li

…lower monetizing surfaces and regions. Family of apps other revenue was $1.1 billion and grew 59%, driven primarily by WhatsApp paid messaging and subscriptions revenue.

Susan Licompanyprepared · 23:46Hear it 23:40, Susan Li

…rolling out gradually with more than 50 features across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, including Meta Business Agent and Meta AI, and has surpassed 15 million…

Where the listed words were said

Mark Zuckerbergcompany“Muse (10+)” · prepared · 2:11Hear it 2:11, Mark Zuckerberg

…our most successful launches ever with the Muse personal agent. We shipped Muse Wonder as our first frontier model, and we shipped several new glasses…

Mark Zuckerbergcompany“Muse (3+)” · prepared · 2:48Hear it 2:48, Mark Zuckerberg

…business, create new things, or anything else that you can dream of. Muse is the product form of this vision. Now, we have the foundational…

Mark Zuckerbergcompany“AI / Artificial Intelligence (30+)” · prepared · 3:33Hear it 3:27, Mark Zuckerberg

…the level that Threads started at, or where we believe that other AI apps started at as well. The most common use case for Muse…

Mark Zuckerbergcompany“Revenue (5+)” · prepared · 4:52Hear it 4:49, Mark Zuckerberg

…for this next phase play to many of Meta's strengths. We need to do three things: scale the product, grow revenue, and optimize compute costs.

Mark Zuckerbergcompany“SI / Super Intelligence” · prepared · 9:07Hear it 9:02, Mark Zuckerberg

…now. Muse Wonder is state-of-the-art across many dimensions that matter for personal superintelligence. This validates the importance of training models ourselves to deliver the best…

Susan Licompany“Facebook (10+)” · prepared · 16:55Hear it 16:55, Susan Li

…digits year-over-year in Q3, with strength across both Reels and Feed. On Facebook, Reels time spent reached all-time highs both globally and in the U.S.,…

Mark Zuckerbergcompany“Reality Lab” · prepared · 10:22Hear it 10:18, Mark Zuckerberg

…on, our work on personal superintelligence is now also the focus of Reality Labs. Muse is coming to Meta Glasses starting next month, and that…

Susan Licompany“Advertising” · prepared · 21:11Hear it 21:05, Susan Li

…5% more conversions at the same cost per conversion and increased their advertising investment by 9% compared with similar non-adopters. We are rolling out additional…

Mark Zuckerbergcompany“VR / Virtual Reality” · prepared · 11:20Hear it 11:17, Mark Zuckerberg

I also shared at Connect that we are changing our approach to virtual reality to only ship new devices when we have major breakthroughs like…

Susan Licompany“Cloud” · prepared · 15:17Hear it 15:12, Susan Li

…token costs. The growth in infrastructure costs was driven by higher third-party cloud spend, depreciation, and data center operating costs. We ended Q3 with over…

Susan Licompany“Dividend” · prepared · 29:06Hear it 29:00, Susan Li

…today we announced plans to create a new class of non-voting capital stock, which will be distributed to all existing shareholders through a stock dividend.

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